![]() His father, Cornelius, was an abusive alcoholic his mother, Edwina, a neurotic southern belle and his sister, Rose, fragile, shy, and prone to nervous breakdowns. Louis, Missouri, where his father worked at the home office of the International Shoe Company. ![]() When he was seven years old, the family moved to St. He did so while testing the ability of language to define subtle and poignant shades of personality, place, and longing.īorn Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1911, Williams spent his early childhood in the Episcopal parsonage of Walter Dakin, his maternal grandfather. ![]() Williams, The Glass Menagerie & Roby's Unseen Characterĭuring a career that spanned more than fifty years, Tennessee Williams experimented with theatrical form and created characters in ways that mark him as one of the most important and influential playwrights of the twentieth century. ![]()
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