Biographical Information
His real name?
Thomas Lanier Williams III
What type of guy was he in college?
A frat boy in the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
Pulitzer winning play?
A Streetcar Named Desire (1948)
“Three Players of a Summer Game” adaptation name?
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
How many occupations did he go through before playwright?
4, a factory worker, waiter, Hollywood script writer & briefly a caretaker on a chicken ranch
Occupation?
Playwright
40 years spent where?
New Orleans
Tony Winning play?
The Rose Tattoo (1951)
What works of his other then plays?*
Poems
A Street Car named Desire original name?*
Blanche’s Chair in the Moon.
Zodiac Sign? *
Aries
What college did he attend?
University of Missouri, Columbia. He was enrolled in journalism classes
His plays bring forth what type of message?
They show us the message of human imperfections
Two novels he wrote?*
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950) and Moise and the World of Reason (1975),
What contest did he cheat at?
A contest for writers 25 and under by shaving 3 years off his original age
Born where & when?
March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi
Where did he go after 40 years?
New York
Which group influenced his first plays?
Members of the southern literary renaissance
Poem of his?
You and I
Incompetent person he met?
A Robber
Date of Death?*
February 25, 1983, New York, NY
What religion was he forced into?
Catholicism, because his brother though he was dying
What genre was his works classified as?
Southern Gothic
What was his first published work?
"Weird Tales" at age 16
Cause of Death?
Choked to death on an eyedrop cap