Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a noted playwright. The name "Tennessee" was a name he adopted from his father's background in Tennessee. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat On a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In addition to those two plays, The Glass Menagerie in 1945 and The Night of the Iguana in 1961 received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. His 1952 play The Rose Tattoo (dedicated to his partner, Frank Merlo), received the Tony Award for best play. Genre critics maintain that Williams writes in the Southern Gothic style.

Plays (chronological order)

• Beauty Is the Word (1930)
• Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay! (1935)
• Candles to the Sun (1936)
• The Magic Tower (1936)
• Fugitive Kind (1937)
• Spring Storm (1937)
• Summer at the Lake (1937)
• The Palooka (1937)
• The Fat Man's Wife (1938)
• Not about Nightingales (1938)
• Adam and Eve on a Ferry (1939)
• Battle of Angels (1940)
• The Long Goodbye (1940)
• Auto Da Fé (1941)
• The Lady of Larkspur Lotion (1941)
• At Liberty (1942)
• The Gentleman Caller (Screenplay) (1944)
• The Glass Menagerie (1944)
• You Touched Me (1945)
• Moony's Kid Don't Cry (1946)
• This Property is Condemned (1946)
• Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton (1946)
• Portait of a Madonna (1946)
• The Last of My Solid Gold Watches (1947)
• Stairs to the Roof (1947)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
• Summer and Smoke (1948)
• I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix (1951)
• The Rose Tattoo (1951)
• Camino Real (1953)
• Hello from Bertha (1954)
• Lord Byron's Love Letter (1955) - libretto
• Three Players of a Summer Game (1955)
• Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
• The Dark Room (1956)
• The Case of the Crushed Petunias (1956)
• Baby Doll (1956) - original screenplay
• Orpheus Descending (1957)
• Suddenly, Last Summer (1958)
• A Perfect Anaysis Given by a Parrot (1958)
• Garden District (1958)
• Something Unspoken (1958)
• Sweet Bird of Youth (1959)
• The Purification (1959)
• And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens (1959)
• The Purification (1959)
• Period of Adjustment (1960)
• The Night of the Iguana (1961)
• The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
• The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1964)
• Grand (1964)
• Slapstick Tragedy (The Mutilated and The Gnädiges Fräulein) (1966)
• The Mutilated (1967)
• Kingdom of Earth / Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968)
• Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws (1969)
• In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969)
• Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969)
• I Can't Imagine Tomorrow (1970)
• The Frosted Glass Coffin (1970)
• Out Cry (1973)
• Small Craft Warnings (1972)
• The Two-Character Play (1973)
• The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975)
• Demolition Downtown (1976)
• This Is (An Entertainment) (1976)
• Vieux Carré (1977)
• Tiger Tail (1978)
• Kirche, Kuchen und Kinder (1979)
• Creve Coeur (1979)
• Lifeboat Drill (1979)
• Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980)
• The Chalky White Substance (1980)
• This is Peaceable Kingdom/Good Luck God
• Steps Must be Gentle (1980)
• The Notebook of Trigorin (1980)
• Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981)
• A House Not Meant to Stand (1982)
• The One Exception (1983)