Tennessee Williams (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Biography

Thomas Lanier Williams, known as Tom during his boyhood and later as Tennessee, was born in his maternal grandparents’ home, an Episcopalian rectory in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1911, to Edwina Dakin and Cornelius Coffin Williams. His mother came from a prominent old Mississippi family and his father from an equally prominent old Tennessee family with a proud military and patriotic background. Williams was immediately thrust into a conflict between the genteel Puritanism of his mother and the cavalier lifestyle of his father.

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