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Tennessee Williams

Born

in Columbus, Mississippi, The United States

March 26, 1911

Died

February 25, 1983

Genre

Theater

Influences

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Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth.

Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at age 33 he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. This play 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, he attempted a new style that did not ap ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 594,160 ratings · 19,031 reviews · 754 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Streetcar Named Desire 3.98 avg rating — 333,999 ratings — published 1947 — 318 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glass Menagerie 3.74 avg rating — 143,051 ratings — published 1945 — 198 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 4.06 avg rating — 64,339 ratings — published 1955 — 174 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suddenly Last Summer 3.94 avg rating — 7,720 ratings — published 1958 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night of the Iguana 3.86 avg rating — 5,876 ratings — published 1961 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays 4.11 avg rating — 3,330 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sweet Bird of Youth 3.74 avg rating — 3,624 ratings — published 1959 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer and Smoke 3.99 avg rating — 3,318 ratings — published 1948 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rose Tattoo 3.68 avg rating — 2,706 ratings — published 1951 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Orpheus Descending 3.82 avg rating — 1,828 ratings — published 1957 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Polls

January 2015 New School Classic Poll

1985, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, 348 pages

16 votes, 28.6%

1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages

7 votes, 12.5%

1933, Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 315 pages

7 votes, 12.5%

1958, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 209 pages

6 votes, 10.7%

1951, The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, 160 pages

5 votes, 8.9%

1985, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, 400 pages

4 votes, 7.1%

1958, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages

3 votes, 5.4%

1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages

3 votes, 5.4%

1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages

2 votes, 3.6%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages

2 votes, 3.6%

1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages

1 vote, 1.8%

1928, Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh, 300 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1947, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 107 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1958, The Bell by Iris Murdoch, 320 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

56 total votes

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