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Speaking of Stories transforming
short stories from the page to the stage
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born Thomas Lanier Williams III in Columbus, Mississippi in the home of his maternal grandfather, the local Episcopal rector. Williams described his childhood in Mississippi as happy and carefree. This sense of belonging and comfort were lost, however, when his family moved to the urban environment of St. Louis, Missouri. It was there he began to look inward, and to write- "because I found life unsatisfactory." Williams' early adult years were occupied with attending college at three different universities, a brief stint working at his father's shoe company, and a move to New Orleans, which began a lifelong love of the city and set the locale for
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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