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Tennessee Williams

1911 - 1983

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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. At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tennessee Williams is the 529th most popular writer (down from 521st in 2019), the 666th most popular biography from United States (down from 534th in 2019) and the 57th most popular American Writer.

Tennessee Williams is most famous for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "A Streetcar Named Desire."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tennessee Williams ranks 529 out of 7,302. Before him are William S. Burroughs, Novatian, G. K. Chesterton, Jacinto Benavente, Ludvig Holberg, and Georg Trakl. After him are Jules Michelet, J. M. Barrie, Vasily Grossman, Richard Bach, Pierre de Ronsard, and Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet.

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Among people born in 1911, Tennessee Williams ranks 29. Before him are Melvin Calvin, Maurice Allais, Jack Ruby, Polykarp Kusch, Marshall McLuhan, and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. After him are William Alfred Fowler, Niels Kaj Jerne, Feodor Lynen, Robert Johnson, Wilhelm Mohnke, and Gian Carlo Menotti. Among people deceased in 1983, Tennessee Williams ranks 14. Before him are Hergé, Albert Claude, Felix Bloch, Idris of Libya, Jon Brower Minnoch, and John Vorster. After him are Benigno Aquino Jr., David Niven, Arthur Koestler, Nikolai Podgorny, Roy Sullivan, and Raymond Aron.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tennessee Williams ranks 666 out of 20,380. Before him are Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Chuck Jones (1912), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), Bill Hewlett (1913), George Herbert Mead (1863), and Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834). After him are Angela Davis (1944), Edwin Stanton (1814), Burton Richter (1931), Harold Lloyd (1893), William E. Moerner (1953), and Kamala Harris (1964).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Tennessee Williams ranks 57. Before him are Dan Brown (1964), Harper Lee (1926), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Louise Glück (1943), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), and William S. Burroughs (1914). After him are Richard Bach (1936), Robert A. Heinlein (1907), Tom Clancy (1947), Sidney Sheldon (1917), Napoleon Hill (1883), and Maya Angelou (1928).

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