Tennessee Williams Profile

Tennessee Williams Navigation

No image available

Name: Tennessee Williams
Full/Alt. name: Thomas Lanier Williams
Date of Birth: Friday May 26 1911
Born: Columbus (Mississippi)
Nationality: American
Partial Biography: One of America's preeminent playwrights, Tennessee Williams restored poetry to the stage in the midst of a post-World War II surge of realism, sensitively peopling his plays with outsiders at odds with…Full Tennessee Williams Biography…

Boom!(1968) (1968) 15Play as Source Material ("The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore"), screenplay
Suddenly Last Summer (1959) (1959) Play as Source Material ("Suddenly Last Summer"), screenplay
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (1958) 12APlay as Source Material ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof")
Senso (1954) (1954) dialogue collaboration
Sweet Bird of Youth Play as Source Material
Summer and Smoke Play as Source Material ("Summer and Smoke")
The Rose Tattoo (1955) Play as Source Material ("The Rose Tattoo"), screenplay
The Night of the Iguana (1964) Play as Source Material
Baby Doll (1956) screenplay

Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award (1979)
New York Drama Critics Circle Award (1961) Best Play - "The Night of the Iguana"
Pulitzer Prize in Drama (1955) - "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958)"
New York Drama Critics Circle Award (1954) Best Play - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Tony (1951) Outstanding Author (Dramatic) - "The Rose Tattoo"