Tennessee Williams Born March 26th

Thomas Lanier Williams was born March 26th, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. His father Cornelius came from a prestigious Tennessee family which included the state's first governor and senator. Thomas was given the nickname "Tennessee" while being enrolled at the University of Iowa, and began to go by it when he moved to New Orleans. Williams is best known for writing the plays Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Night of the Iguana.

"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."







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