Tennessee Williams: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Thomas Lanier Williams
Born	March 26, 1911 • Columbus • Mississippi
Died	February 25, 1983 (aged 71) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize • Kennedy Center Honors (1979)
Notable Works	“A Lovely Sunday for Crève Coeur” • “A Streetcar Named Desire” • “American Blues” • “Camino Real” • “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” • “Clothes for a Summer Hotel” • “Moise and the World of Reason” • “Suddenly Last Summer” • “The Glass Menagerie” • “The Night of the Iguana” • “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone” • “The Rose Tattoo” • “Vieux Carré”
Movement / Style	Southern gothic