Tennessee Williams
/ˌtenəsiː ˈwɪljəmz/
/ˌtenəsiː ˈwɪljəmz/
- (1914-83) a major US writer of plays. These were often set in the South and about people with emotional and sexual problems, which many people found shocking when the plays were first performed. Two of his 24 plays, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), won Pulitzer Prizes. Others included The Glass Menagerie (1945), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) and Night of the Iguana (1961). There have been film versions of many of them.
田纳西·威廉姆斯：（1914-83）美国主要戏剧作家。这些通常是在南方，涉及有情绪和性问题的人，许多人在首次表演戏剧时就感到震惊。他的24部戏剧中有2部名为《欲望的有轨电车》和《铁皮屋顶上的猫》（1955年），获得了普利策奖。其他作品包括《玻璃动物园》（1945年），《甜蜜的小鸟》（1959年）和《鬣蜥之夜》（1961年）。其中有许多电影版本。