# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tennessee-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:32.304Z

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name: "Tennessee Williams"
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description: "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."
tagline: "American playwright (1911–1983)"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1911-03-26"
deathDate: "1983-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.