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Tennessee Williams And Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams is a Pulitzer prize winning playwright who is most well known for his plays A Street Car Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26th, 1911 in Mississippi. He was raised by his mother due to his father's love for his work. When he was moved away from his home state of Mississippi to Missouri, Williams began to write taking the stress of the move to paper. With added stress from his parents rocky marriage Williams said it created fuel for him to craft his work. His short career at college started in 1929 where he was studying journalism before his father pulled him out to become a sales clerk for a shoe company. In 1937 Williams returned to college and graduated
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