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Tennessee Williams
American playwright
and prose writer,
Pulitzer prize. Widely
known as the author
of the play «a
Streetcar named
Desire», repeatedly
filmed and put on the
world theatrical
stages.
Thomas Lanir Williams III
Place of birth:
Columbus, Mississippi
Date of death:
25 February 1983 (71)
Place of death:
New York
Citizenship:
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Occupation:
playwright, novelist
Years of creative work:
1930-1983
The language of the works:
English
Prize:
Pulitzer prize
on March 26, 1911 in the city of Columbus,
Mississippi, USA) was born future classic Thomas
Ланир William. Alias Tennessee Williams was taken
at a young age at the University (he studied at the
universities of Missouri and Iowa and Washington
University in St. Louis). Strict father Volume,
salesman, who did not want to, he studied literature,
taken him out of the University, giving the graduate
and gave him the Shoe warehouse. Not wanting to
spend their days in a Shoe company, young Tom
begins to lead the Bohemian life, moving from place
to place and surviving on odd jobs. In 1934 semiprofessional theatre company performed a series of
his one-act plays.
The complex relations young Thomas
with reality, which only worsened with
age, and have resulted in severe
depression and subsequently in a
psychiatric hospital, and reflected in its
plays rough, the nerve, in the absence
of clearly positive or negative heroes,
but because forcing worry and think.
Complicated characters and broken
destinies, the absence of explicit
judgements and attitudes to their
heroes, the nature of the writer. He said
repeatedly that all he writes is that he
survived. The writer may not have been
in such difficult situations as his heroes,
but the inner world, emotions and
thoughts of his characters he always
identified with him. Mostly he expresses
himself through images of women aided his homosexual nature.
In the 50s he is
going through a
difficult period - loss
of interest in work,
loss of a loved one
severe and
prolonged
depression. Having
managed to recover
in the 60 writes
plays, stories,
poems. Not so
eager to work with
the theatre. In 1975
writes surprisingly
candid memoir, as if
putting a point in his
bright and restless
life.
Tennessee Williams
died in 1983.