Tennessee Williams

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Thomas Lanier Williams III, 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.

Books by Tennessee Williams

4 books available

A Streetcar Named Desire
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4.0 (261k) average on GoodreadsFiction
In New Orleans, a Southern belle's attempt at maintaining her refined image clashes with her brother-in-law's rough nature, leading to her mental collapse.
The Glass Menagerie
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In a St. Louis apartment, a faded Southern belle, her restless son, and his painfully shy sister with her collection of glass animals, grapple with shattered dreams and the suffocating grip of memory.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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On a sweltering Mississippi Delta plantation, a dying patriarch's birthday ignites a brutal family battle for inheritance, exposing the raw wounds of a marriage suffocated by unspoken desires and the scorching heat of mendacity.
Sweet Bird of Youth
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A faded golden boy returns to his Southern hometown, clutching a desperate, aging movie star and a fragile dream of lost love, only to confront the violent reckoning of his past.