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The next year he entered the University of Missouri but left before taking a degree. He also skipped school regularly and did poorly in his studies, preferring instead to escape into the world of reading and writing.Īt the age of sixteen Williams published his first story. He and his sisters were often ridiculed by other students because of their Southern accent. Louis, Missouri.Ībout this time, young Thomas adopted the name Tennessee (presumably because many of his descendants hailed from that state). When his father obtained a position at a shoe factory, the family moved to a crowded, low-rent apartment in St. His parents were resentful of each other, his mother once describing her husband as "a man's man" who loved to gamble and drink. William's family life was never a happy one. As a result, the young boy developed a close relationship with his grandfather, and also his older sister, Rose. His father, a traveling salesman, was rarely home and for many years the family lived with his mother's parents. Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1914, the second of three children of Cornelius and Edwina Williams. He is best known for his powerful plays, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Tennessee Williams, dramatist and fiction writer, was one of America's major mid-twentieth-century playwrights. American dramatist, playwright, and writer