Williams, Tennessee

A twentieth-century American author. Williams is famous for his plays, which portray violent passions in ordinary people; these plays include A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , and The Glass Menagerie .

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An inveterate networker, he managed to get Tennessee Williams as the chief signatory on one letter-writing campaign.

Vidal caroused with Tennessee Williams and Christopher Isherwood and feuded with Truman Capote.

Arthur Miller, Lillian Hellman, and Tennessee Williams ruled the stage.

In addition to his longer plays, Tennessee Williams wrote dozens of one-act plays, short stories, and novels.

Tennessee Williams knew what he was doing when he planted it on his Streetcar.

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