Tennessee Williams Research Paper

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“There is time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go” Tennessee williams.
Tennessee Williams was a famous writer, playwright, dramatist.
Thomas Lanier Williams better known as Tennessee Williams was born March, 26 , 1914 in the citie of the Columbus(Tennessee Williams 3).
His childhood was not good, he had 2 brothers, he was the second of the three children, his father’s name was Cornelius Coffin Williams and his mother Edwina Dakin Williams.He live with the parents of his mother because his father was a person who traveled much,when his live with his grandparents he liked writing(Tennessee Williams
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After that happen he working in the department of drama.When he had was 28 ,his family moved to New Orleans, where he changed his name to Tennessee Williams and chose this name by his father who was called Tennessee Williams( Encyclopedia.com).In 19444 Williams receipt several critical and after this it motivated to write “Twenty-four curtain calls” and “ The hose of the glass menagerie” that were filed in the year of 1945 in New York , which were of his works that made him famous.After he writing these two works, he wrote another work that es called 27 wagons full of cotton, to it's that their present the year of 1947 in New York city this work recognized by more than one decade. One of his best plays that he wrote was in the year of 1950 and was the novel called “The Roman spring of Mrs. Stone” that the others writes considered a perfect novel by how it was written and presented in the theatres(Tennessee Williams …show more content…
Tennessee Williams is considered one of the best writes of all time,(Tennessee Williams 3)not just America by deeds who wrote also for how He collaborate to improve the writing of the United States.Williams died in a hotel of New York day on february 24,1983. The cause of his dead were the alcohol and drugs(Tenessee Williams 4). Williams contributed to the theater with his great works of writing.In the city New Orleans held a festival in honor of Williams to show all his works he wrote(Encyclopedia.com).

References.
"Encyclopedia.com." Williams, Tennessee. 2016 Encyclopedia.com, 25 Feb. 1983. Web. 21 Apr. 2017.

"Tennessee Williams. 1" Biography. Copyright 1990-2017., n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2017 "Tennessee Williams. 2"britannicaschools.com © 2017 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc, 2017. Web. 20 Apr. 2017

"Tennessee Williams. 3" Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983). Http://shsmo.org/index.shtml, n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2017.

"Tennessee Williams. 4" Tennessee Williams: Portraits of an American Genius. Time.inc, 23 Mar. 2012. Web. 21 Apr.

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