Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams was an extraordinary play writer. The people admired the emotion and meaning that were put into the plays. Some of the many plays written by him are: The Glass Menagerie, which opened on Broadway on March 31, 1945. In addition, just two years after that, another one of his most popular plays; A Streetcar Named Desire, got Williams to obtain what would be his first Pulitzer Prize. Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on March 26, 1911. After college at age of 28 he decided to move to New Orleans, where he then proceeded to write. Unfortunately on February 25, 1983 Williams was found dead in a New York City hotel room with just 71 years of age. His corpse was found surrounded by pills and empty bottles
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He got to experience some of the most important battles of the United States. One more time his family had to migrate; this time to, St. Louis, Missouri, where he did not seem to be very delighted so he turned inward and began to write. Once again, he turned to writing after suffering a nervous breakdown when he began working as a sales clerk at a shoe company. One of the most significant decisions he made was returning to St. Louis, where he hung out with poets attending the Washington University whom inspired him to give college a shot once more, he enrolled in the University of Iowa in 1937 and proceed to graduate the following year. Another of of the major issues he faced was later on in his career. During the 1960s, he was faced to several challenges, his plays were nowhere near as good as they used to and he received poor reviews which affected him both physically and mentally. As a result, Williams fell into alcohol and drugs; he became reclusive, which led to his older brother; Cornelius Williams, hospitalizing him.Williams needed nothing but intrinsic motivation to get back at what was his passion and continue satisfying the audience. In 1975 he released a few more plays, Memoirs being one of them. The play told the story and struggles of his