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| | MWP: Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) |
 | | One of Americas greatest playwrights, and certainly the greatest ever from the South, Tennessee Williams wrote fiction and motion picture screenplays, but he is acclaimed primarily for his playnearly all of which are set in the South, but which at their best rise above regionalism to approach universal themes. |
 | | Thomas Lanier Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1911, the first son and second child of Cornelius Coffin and Edwina Dakin Williams. |
 | | His mother, the daughter of a minister, was of genteel upbringing, while his father, a shoe salesman, came from a prestigious Tennessee family which included the states first governor and first senator. |
| www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee (740 words) |
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