Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams — 2 titles in the rankings, first published between 1947 and 1955. They average 7.7, below the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages.

Editor’s note American playwright whose plays, read here as books, are among the great works of the twentieth-century stage, full of fragile dreamers, desire and the decaying American South. In A Streetcar Named Desire, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister Stella’s cramped New Orleans flat and collides with Stella’s brutal husband, Stanley Kowalski. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, his second Pulitzer, gathers a rich Mississippi family around a dying patriarch and an unhappy marriage. Short and intense; both became famous films.

Ranked titles

2 books

Average score

7.7

Total ratings

515

First published

1947–1955

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