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Biography

Tennessee Williams is one of America's best known playwrights. He was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi, the second of three children born to Cornelius Coffin (a traveling salesman) and Edwina (Dakin) Williams.
Williams attended the University of Missouri from 1931 to 1933.

After seeing a production of Ghosts, a play by Heinrik Ibsen, he decided to become a playwright.

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But his education was interrupted by his father's insistence that he work for a shoe company. Williams managed to resume his education at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, from 1936 to 1937, and he finally graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1938.

He then worked in various jobs in New Orleans, Jacksonville, Florida, and New York City. These included clerk, waiter, hotel elevator operator, teletype operator, and theatre usher.
In 1940, Williams's first m