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Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus  Mississippi  where his grandfather was the
episcopal clergyman. When his father  a travelling salesman  moved with his family to St Louis
some years later  both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He
entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job
in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years  spending the evening writing. He entered the
University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course  at the same time holding a large number of
part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play
Battle of Angels  and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays
Penguin have published Summer and Smoke (1948)  The Rose Tattoo (1951)  Camino Real (1953) 
Baby Doll (1957)  Orpheus Descending (1957)  Something Unspoken (1958)  Suddenly Last Summer
(1958)  Period of Adjustment (1960)  The Night of the Iguana (1961)  The Milk Train Doesn't
Stop Here Anymore (1963)  and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in 1983.

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