He won the contest, but never corrected the erroneous date of birth. Some sources list Williams’s birth date as 1914, but Williams purposely confused the year–not out of vanity, but out of necessity: early in his life he entered a play-writing contest in which he had to knock three years off his age to qualify. He wrote his own history in the form of essays and introductions to his plays, and helped others write it through numerous interviews which he gave. Most of the biographical information available on Tennessee Williams came from Williams himself. He is best known for The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He was the son of pioneer Tennesseeans, mostly military men and politicians. Born on Main Columbus, Missouri, Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams is considered one of the foremost American playwrights of the twentieth century.
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