Thomas Lanier Williams, better known as Tennessee, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. His work includes The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, among other plays, novels, short stories and letters. He was born in Mississippi, raised in St. Louis, lived and traveled all over the world, and died in New York City.
