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Tennessee Willams

Tennessee Willams. By Virginia Young. His Childhood. Born Thomas Lanier Williams , March 26, 1911 Born in Columbus, Mississippi His Mother and Father are Edwina and Cornelius Williams His grandfather was the local Episcopal priest Had a little brother named Dakin and a sister named Rose

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Tennessee Willams

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  1. Tennessee Willams By Virginia Young

  2. His Childhood • Born Thomas Lanier Williams, March 26, 1911 • Born in Columbus, Mississippi • His Mother and Father are Edwina and Cornelius Williams • His grandfather was the local Episcopal priest • Had a little brother named Dakin and a sister named Rose • Tennessee was less robust as a child and his father thought him effeminate.

  3. Education • He attended Soldan High School. • Later he went to University City High School • University of Missouri from 1929 to 1931 • He transferred to Washington University in St. Louis for a year.

  4. Personal life • Tennessee was close to his sister Rose, a slim beauty who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age • His first sexual affair with a man was at Provincetown, Massachusetts with a dancer named Kip Kiernan • While living in New Orleans, Williams met and fell in love with Frank Merlo, a second generation Sicilian American who had served in the U.S. Navy in World War II • He discussed his homosexuality openly on television and in print in the 1970s.

  5. Novels and short stories • The Roman Spring of Mrs.Stone (1950, filmed 1961) • Moise and the World of Reason (1975) • The Vengeance of Nitocris (1928) • The Field of Blue Children (1939) • The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin (1951) • Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954)

  6. More Short Stories • Three Players of a Summer Game and Other Stories (1960) • The Knightly Quest: a Novella and Four Short Stories (1966) • One Arm and Other Stories (1967) • One Arm • The Malediction • The Poet • Chronicle of a Demise • Desire and the Black Masseur • Portrait of a Girl in Glass • The Important Thing • The Angel in the Alcove • The Field of Blue Children • The Night of the Iguana • The Yellow Bird • Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: a Book of Stories (1974) • Tent Worms (1980) • It Happened the day the Sun Rose, and Other Stories (1981)

  7. Pictures

  8. Plays • Baby Doll (1956) • The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (1957, filmed 2009) • Me Vaysha (1937) • American Blues (1948) • Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays • Dragon Country: a book of one-act plays (1970) • The Traveling Companion and Other Plays • 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays (1946 and 1953)

  9. Pictures

  10. Death • Williams died on February 25, 1983 at the age of 71 • Reports at the time indicated he choked on an eye drop bottle cap in his room at the Hotel Elysee in New York • The police report, however, suggested his use of drugs and alcohol contributed to his death • Williams' funeral took place on March 3, 1983 • The End

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