WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. One of America’s greatest dramatists; b. Thomas Lanier Williams, Columbus, Mississippi, ; d. New York, New York, .
Williams’ mother, much like Blanche in his masterwork,
A Streetcar Named Desire
, adhered to largely irrelevant mores and a somewhat unreal idea of then-current social convention. Williams’ father called his son Miss Nancy
and relentlessly expressed his disgust for the youngster. The family moved to St. Louis when Williams...