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Thomas Owen Williams of Chamberlain, Brule County, SD was born on June 29, 1918, and died at age 69 years old on August 12, 1987. Thomas Williams was buried at Black Hills National Cemetery
Section G Site 275-A 20901 Pleasant Valley Drive, in Sturgis.

Thomas G Williams of Johnsonburg, Elk County, PA was born on April 18, 1915, and died at age 84 years old on February 17, 2000.

Thomas J Williams of Alexandria, Alexandria City County, VA was born on May 3, 1914, and died at age 86 years old on January 5, 2001.

Thomas L Williams of New York, New York County, NY was born on August 10, 1923, and died at age 71 years old in April 1995.

Thomas A Williams of Radcliff, Hardin County, KY was born on March 10, 1952, and died at age 57 years old on November 15, 2009. Thomas Williams was buried at Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Central
Section CWA Row B Site 032 2501 North Dixie Blvd, in Radcliff.

Thomas J Williams of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, NY was born on July 25, 1920, and died at age 61 years old on September 15, 1981.

Thomas Williams of Stawell Australia was born in 1901 in Stawell to Dorothy Smith Williams and Thomas Williams. He had siblings Dorothy Elizabeth Williams, Thomas Williams, Richard Williams, Thomas Williams, and John Francis Williams. Thomas Williams died at age 50 years old in 1951 in Hampton.

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Thomas Williams of St Kilda Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Williams .


Thomas Williams of Myrtleford Australia was born on February 28, 1862, and died at age 75 years old on March 7, 1937.

Thomas B Williams Jr. of Bristol County, Massachusetts United States was born in 1927. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas B Williams Jr.

Thomas J Williams of Houston, Harris County, Texas United States was born on February 22, 1925 at Hoboken, New Jersey, and died at age 70 years old in 1995 at Houston, Texas. Thomas Williams was buried in 1995 in Houston.

Thomas Franklin Williams was born on May 10, 1901 in Mahaska, Iowa United States, and died at age 79 years old on December 21, 1980 in Dunlap, CA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Franklin Williams.

Thomas Ellsworth Franklin Williams was born on October 7, 1924 at Monroe Township in Monroe, Iowa United States, and died at age 45 years old on February 15, 1970 in Fresno, Fresno County, CA.


Thomas Williams was born in 1863, and died at age 69 years old in 1932. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Williams.

Thomas Syddall Williams of Carl N Australia was born on March 17, 1819 in Bury, Lancashire, U.K County England, and was buried in 1865. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Syddall Williams.

Thomas Edward Williams of Bendigo Australia was born on May 1, 1926 in Bendigo, and died at age 67 years old on May 4, 1993. Thomas Williams was buried at Ft. Logan National Cemetery
Section 4 Site 2786 West Kenyon Avenue, in Denver, Co.

Thomas C Williams Jr of Wharton County, TX was born on January 29, 1933, and died at age 66 years old on March 4, 1999. Thomas Williams was buried at Calverton National Cemetery
Section 19 Site 634 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton, Ny.

Thomas Picton Williams was born in 1897 in Chewton, Mount Alexander Shire County, VIC Australia, and died at age 6 years old in 1903 in Woolloongabba, Brisbane City County, QLD. Thomas Williams was buried at South Brisbane Cemetery 185 Annerley Rd, in Dutton Park. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Picton Williams.


ennessee Williams Biography
Playwright (1911–1983)
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Tennessee Williams was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose works include, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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Playwright Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi. After college, he moved to New Orleans, a city that would inspire much of his writing. On March 31, 1945, his play, The Glass Menagerie, opened on Broadway and two years later A Streetcar Named Desire earned Williams his first Pulitzer Prize. Many of Williams' plays have been adapted to film starring screen greats like Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. Williams died in 1983.
Early Years
Playwright Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi, the second of Cornelius and Edwina Williams' three children. Raised predominantly by his mother, Williams had a complicated relationship with his father, a demanding salesman who preferred work instead of parenting.
Williams described his childhood in Mississippi as pleasant and happy. But life changed for him when his family moved to St. Louis, Missouri. The carefree nature of his boyhood was stripped in his new urban home, and as a result Williams turned inward and started to write.
His parent's marriage certainly didn't help. Often strained, the Williams home could be a tense place to live. "It was just a wrong marriage," Williams later wrote. The family situation, however, did offer fuel for the playwright's art. His mother became the model for the foolish but strong Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, while his father represented the aggressive, driving Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
In 1929, Williams enrolled at the University of Missouri to study journalism. But he was soon withdrawn from the school by his father, who became incensed when he learned that his son's girlfriend was also attending the university.
Deeply despondent, Williams retreated home, and at his father's urging took a job as a sales clerk with a shoe company. The future playwright hated the position, and again he turned to his writing, crafting poems and stories after work. Eventually, however, the depression took its toll and Williams suffered a nervous breakdown.
After recuperating in Memphis, Williams returned to St. Louis and where he connected with several poets studying at Washington University. In 1937 returned to college, enrolling at the University of Iowa. He graduated the following year.
Commercial Success
When he was 28, Williams moved to New Orleans, where he changed his name (he landed on Tennessee because his father hailed from there) and revamped his lifestyle, soaking up the city life that would inspire his work, most notably the later play, A Streetcar Named Desire.
He proved to be a prolific writer and one of his plays, earned him $100 from the Group Theater writing contest. More importantly, it landed him an agent, Audrey Wood, who would become his friend and adviser.
In 1940 Williams' play, Battle of Angels, debuted in Boston. It quickly flopped, but the hardworking Williams revised it and brought it back as Orpheus Descending, which later was made into the movie, The Fugitive Kind, starring Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani.
Other work followed, including a gig writing scripts for MGM. But Williams' mind was never far from the stage. On March 31, 1945, a play he'd been working for some years, The Glass Menagerie, opened on Broadway.
Critics and audiences alike lauded the play, about a declassed Southern family living in a tenement, forever changing Williams' life and fortunes. Two years later, A Streetcar Named Desire opened, surpassing his previous success and cementing his status as one of the country's best playwrights. The play also earned Williams a Drama Critics' Award and his first Pulitzer Prize.
His subsequent work brought more praise. The hits from this period included Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth.
Later Years
The 1960s were a difficult time for Williams. His work received poor reviews and increasingly the playwright turned to alcohol and drugs as coping mechanisms. In 1969 his brother hospitalized him.
Upon his release, Williams got right back to work. He churned out several new plays as well as Memoirs in 1975, which told the story of his life and his afflictions.
But he never fully escaped his demons. Surrounded by bottles of wine and pills, Williams died in a New York City hotel room on February 25, 1983.

Thomas J Williams of Houston, Harris County, TX was born on October 5, 1920, and died at age 74 years old on May 9, 1995.

Thomas Williams was born in 1850 in Melbourne, VIC Australia, and died at age 1 year old in 1851 at Merri Creek in Melbourne. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Williams.

Thomas Eugene Williams was born at Martins Ferry, Ohio to Cleveland Williams and Margaret Anne Williams, and has siblings Shirley Anne Williams, Geraldine Williams, and Gladys Marie Williams. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Eugene Williams.

Thomas Roderick Williams of Waco, McLennan County, TX was born on April 8, 1923, and died at age 84 years old on May 7, 2007. Thomas Williams was buried at Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery
Section L Site 161 1501 West Maryland, in North Little Rock, Ar.

Thomas B Williams of Las Vegas, Clark County, NV was born on January 12, 1929, and died at age 65 years old on November 26, 1994. Thomas Williams was buried at Riverside National Cemetery
Section 43 Site 931 22495 Van Buren Boulevard, in Riverside, Ca.

Thomas Williams was born to Roy Williams and Maggie Jane Hopkins, and has siblings Wanda Fay Williams, John Williams, and Elmer Dean Hopkins. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Williams.

Thomas Earl Williams Sr of Ladys Island, Beaufort County, SC was born on January 6, 1913, and died at age 95 years old on March 7, 2008. Thomas Williams was buried at Barrancas National Cemetery
Section 29 Site 126 Naval Air Station, 1 Cemetery Road, in Pensacola, Fl.
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