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  1. Mar 20, 2020 · Central Press/Getty Images. Tennessee Williams was 71-years-old at the time of his passing, and he'd had a rough couple of decades. His incredible success in the 1940s had given way to relative obscurity and a series of failed plays. His mental health was, by most accounts, in a state of cascade failure: his difficulties with substance abuse ...

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  2. Tennessee Williams. Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.

  3. Feb 26, 2013 · February 25, 2013 / 8:04 PM EST / CBS New York. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- On Feb. 25, 1983 -- 30 years ago Monday -- playwright Tennessee Williams was found dead in his home at the iconic Hotel ...

  4. Dec 6, 2018 · Tennessee Williams, American playwright. Williams’s own life was not without high drama. By the 1960s his health had deteriorated, due, in large part, to years of abusing sleeping pills and liquor, he was struggling with depression — particularly after the death of his longtime partner, Frank Merlo, in 1963 — and his career was in decline.

  5. Sep 21, 2024 · Tennessee Williams (born March 26, 1911, Columbus, Mississippi, U.S.—died February 25, 1983, New York City) was an American dramatist whose plays reveal a world of human frustration in which sex and violence underlie an atmosphere of romantic gentility. Williams became interested in playwriting while at the University of Missouri (Columbia ...

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    Aug 10, 2023 · After college, Tennessee Williams moved to New Orleans, a city that would inspire much of his writing. ... Williams died in a New York City hotel room on February 25, 1983. QUICK FACTS.

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  8. Feb 8, 1999 · Only three years later, Tennessee Williams died in a New York City hotel filled with half-finished bottles of wine and pills. It was in this desperation, which Williams had so closely known and so ...