A Streetcar Named Desire
(Tennessee Williams)

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi and died in 1983 in New York. Over the course of his lifetime Williams wrote fiction, essays, memoirs, and screenplays, but he was by far most well known for his stage plays, including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Rose Tattoo, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947 in order to explore more fully the clashes between old southern principals and the rise of a more industrial mentality.

The play had a two-year run on Broadway and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1948. It opened in London in 1949 and was adapted into a film in 1951. To this day, the play remains culturally significant as a landmark work by a distinguished American playwright.