![]() ![]() ![]() He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 19. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. ![]() ![]() He also wrote a novella, and some collections of poems and short stories. He achieved popular and critical success with many of his plays including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He studied at the Universities of Washington and Iowa, and in New York while embarking on a career as a playwright. Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) was born in 1911 in Mississippi where he was brought up before moving to St Louis. ![]()
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