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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
In addition, he created the Literary Walking Tour of the French Quarter in 1974, which not only visited sites where Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, and Truman Capote lived, among others, but expanded his offerings to include their favorite restaurants and haunts [6] [7] He has also published and edited the Tennessee Williams Literary ...
In 1948, at a party at her friend John Gielgud's house in Chelsea, Britneva met Tennessee Williams and they became passionate life-long friends. She was the inspiration for Maggie the Cat in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which Williams dedicated to her, borrowing Maria's descriptive of her in-laws, (no-neck monsters), for one of Maggie's most famous lines.
Throughout his life Williams was known as a protector, who encouraged greatness in everyone he met. Williams, a youth coach and mentor, died June 27 from complications from an unknown heart condition.
Robin Williams’ son Zak marked the 10th anniversary of the star’s death with a touching tribute. “Dad, it’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years,” Zak, 41, captioned a photo of his ...
The 27-year-old daughter of country singer Hank Williams Jr. died in a car crash in Tennessee late Saturday. Katherine Williams-Dunning and her husband, 29-year-old Tyler Dunning, were driving ...
Williams was born Randall Hank Williams on May 26, 1949, in Shreveport, Louisiana. His father nicknamed him Bocephus (after Grand Ole Opry comedian Rod Brasfield's ventriloquist dummy). [7] After his father's death in 1953, he was raised by his mother, Audrey Williams.
The family of Tennessee death row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton held a press conference asking Gov. Bill Lee to examine the case for a potential pardon. ... 1992 murders of siblings Tommy Griffin and ...