Tennessee Williams (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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Born in the Deep South, Tennessee Williams and his sister Rose suffered the first of many psychological traumas when their father took a job in St. Louis and moved them and their mother from a small Southern town to the city. Williams wrote his first work as a teenager, publishing a story in Weird Magazine while still in high school. After college, he returned to the South and spent much of the rest of his life in New Orleans and Key West. He always wrote five to eight hours a day, seven days a week, and produced more than seventy plays, two novels, three...

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