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  1. Williams, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Lanier Williamsnoun

    United States playwright (1911-1983)

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  1. Tennessee Williams

    Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. He introduced "plastic theatre" in this play and it closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his later work, Williams attempted a new style that did not appeal as widely to audiences. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.Much of Williams's most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays, and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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  1. tennessee williams

    Tennessee Williams was an acclaimed American playwright best known for works like "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," and "The Glass Menagerie." His plays, which often tackled themes of desire, desperation, and the struggles of the human condition, have had a significant influence on 20th century theatre. Born as Thomas Lanier Williams III in 1911, he adopted the pen-name "Tennessee" in 1939. He received numerous awards for his work, including two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.

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  1. Tennessee Williams

    Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs. His professional career lasted from the mid-1930s until his death in 1983, and saw the creation of many plays that are regarded as classics of the American stage. Williams adapted much of his best known work for the cinema.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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    To Tennessee Williams, children were 'no-neck monsters,' while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant as a 'Mighty Prophet Seer Blest' Most adults know the truth is somewhere in between.

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