Timeline Tennessee Williams

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• 1911 Tennessee Williams born in Columbus, Mississippi Thomas Lanier Williams III is born in Columbus, Mississippi, and spends his early childhood in his grandfather's rectory.
• 1918 Williams's family moves to St Louis The Williams family moves to St Louis, a city Tom hates and later recreates in The Glass Menagerie.
• 1939 Thomas Williams becomes Tennessee Williams Thomas Williams first signs his work as Tennessee Williams and moves to New Orleans, the city of Streetcar.
• 1943 Williams's sister Rose lobotomised Rose Williams undergoes a lobotomy, a loss that haunts her brother's plays for the rest of his life.
• 1944 Williams's The Glass Menagerie premieres Tennessee Williams's memory play opens in Chicago and moves to Broadway in 1945, his first triumph.
• 1947 Williams meets Frank Merlo Tennessee Williams meets Frank Merlo, his partner for fourteen years.
• 1947 Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire opens Tennessee Williams's play opens on Broadway with Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy and wins the Pulitzer Prize.
• 1951 Williams's Streetcar filmed Elia Kazan's film of A Streetcar Named Desire, with Brando and Vivien Leigh, wins four Oscars.
• 1955 Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens Tennessee Williams's play about Maggie, Brick and Big Daddy opens on Broadway and wins his second Pulitzer Prize.
• 1958 Williams's Suddenly, Last Summer Tennessee Williams's one-act play opens off-Broadway. The 1959 film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn.
• 1961 Williams's The Night of the Iguana Tennessee Williams's last major Broadway success opens.
• 1963 Williams's partner Frank Merlo dies Frank Merlo dies of lung cancer, and Tennessee Williams enters a long decline he called his stoned age.
• 1983 Tennessee Williams dies in New York Tennessee Williams dies at the Hotel Elysée in New York, aged 71.