Tennessee Williams

Person · Open Library

Born

26 March 1911

Died

25 February 1983

Works

345

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Film & TV

Writing · Columbus, Mississippi, USA

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. At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of The Glass…

Known for

• Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation — Self - Playwright (archive footage)2021
• Beautiful Darling — Self (archive footage)2010
• The Yellow Bird — Narrator (voice)2002
• Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage — Self (archive footage)1994
• The Kennedy Center Honors — Self1978
• Midi Première — Self1975
• Tennessee Williams' South1973
• Begegnung mit Tennessee Williams — Self - Interviewee1972
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest1968
• Small World — Self1958

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1911

Active to

1983

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

425

Total plays

2,252

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name "Tennessee" was a name given to him by college friends because of his southern accent and 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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tennessee+Williams">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PHQ-9

   · 2001 · cited 39,428x

2. A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder

   · 2006 · cited 28,895x

3. Learning representations by back-propagating errors

   · 1986 · cited 24,340x

4. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 21,254x

5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,608x

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Quotes

• “I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.”
• “Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.”
• “The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.”
• “Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”
• “The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”
• “I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding&mdash;not even that&mdash;no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Williams

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Columbus

Place of death

New York City

Occupation

writer

Employer

The New School

Languages spoken

English language

Notable work

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Student of

Erwin Piscator

Field of work

performing arts

Image

Tennessee Williams NYWTS.jpg

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