# Tennessee Williams

> He turned the American South into a theater of longing - humid nights, faded gentility, desire pressed against restraint. A Streetcar Named Desire alone secured the claim, but he kept delivering: The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana.

*American playwright (1911-1983)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1911-03-26
- **Died:** 1983-02-25
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Thomas Lanier Williams III wrote his first play in 1930, but fourteen years passed before The Glass Menagerie broke through in 1944. What followed was a run few playwrights match: A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955, Sweet Bird of Youth in 1959, The Night of the Iguana in 1961. His later work pushed toward a new style that audiences didn't follow. Much of the catalog moved to film; he also wrote short stories, poetry, essays, and memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death on February 25, 1983, he entered the American Theater Hall of Fame.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 69.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 4.2 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 26.5 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 21.4 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931783/ (@nm0931783)

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Theatre, #Fiction, #Screenwriting, #Poetry, #Literature, #United States

## Timeline
- **1983** - Died
- **1980** - Presidential Medal of Freedom
- **1979** - Kennedy Center Honors
- **1974** - St. Louis Literary Award
- **1951** - Tony Award for Best Play
- **1948** - Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- **1911** - Born

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