Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Mississippi and moved to St. Louis as a child. He later attended the University of Missouri and worked at a shoe company where he met the inspiration for the character Stanley Kowalski. Williams moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to Tennessee. His first play, The Glass Menagerie, was successful on Broadway in the 1940s. His plays A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof both won the Pulitzer Prize and were adapted into popular films. Williams struggled with depression and drug dependence later in life after the death of his partner Frank Merlo in 1961. He died in 1983 after writing several other plays and novels but finding less success in

1. Tennessee Williams 1911-1983

9. Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cat on a Hot tin Roof.

10. Andy Warhol and Tennessee Williams, 1967.