Biography Lee Williams

About the author of Tennessee Williams is an American playwright, one of the recognized classics of modern American literature. Parents often suffocated the life path. Father's cool disposition and excessive custody of the mother did not affect the children well. The little volume was very close to the sister of Rosa. Both have fought all their lives with the mental problems that grew up from children's injuries.

Having matured, Williams will splash out many experiences on paper, reflecting their own mental torment in the characters of his works. Tom studied at elementary school Eugene Field. A shy and modest boy was constantly attacked by peers. To console his son, his mother gave him a typewriter. Williams entered University City, where they began to pay attention to his works. He sent his works to national magazines, wrote a lot for the school newspaper.

In the year, Tom entered the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Missouri in Colombia. His first famous play “Beauty is the Word” received an honorary award at the annual school competition of dramatic arts. In the year, the father forced his son to throw the university and get a shoe factory in St. Louis. The guy did not give up writing, became interested in the theater.

At this time, he puts staging with a small theater troupe in Memphis. In the year in St. Louis, his author’s plays were presented on stage. Up to a year, Williams studied dramaturgy and English at the University of Ayov. After graduation, he presented his plays for a competition in New York, forging the questionnaire. The age qualification of the participants was set at the mark of twenty -five years, so Tom corrected the date of his birth with, and changed the name to Tennessee Williams.

Having won the competition, the writer received a prize in the amount of dollars and continued to write under the pseudonym. For many years, the playwright devoted to travel. He could not arrange his personal life, including because of his unconventional orientation. During this period, all his works are permeated by the motives of loneliness, sadness and search for love. In the year, his first professionally staged play “The Battle of Angels” failed.

Railed, with big debts, he interrupted by random earnings, lived at the expense of family members and good strangers. In the year, the personal secretary and the long -standing love of Williams - Frank Merlo died from lung cancer. This event became fatal for the writer - he plunged into deep depression, abused alcohol and prohibited substances. After a nervous breakdown in the year, Tom enters a psychiatric clinic.

Until his death, the playwright could not overcome his pernicious addictions. He died on February 24 from suffocation. The writer's work first loud success to Williams brought his "glass menagerie." For the first time, the performance was staged in Chicago in the year, and in the next theater season he moved to Broadway, where he was met by the violent enthusiasm of the public.

The plays of Tennessee Williams changed the American theater. Many of them were successfully filmed. In New Orleans, a literary festival dedicated to the playwright is annually held. Similar authors.