WRITER

Tennessee Williams

1911 - 1983

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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tennessee Williams has received more than 6,925,852 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Tennessee Williams is the 521st most popular writer (down from 434th in 2019), the 534th most popular biography from United States (down from 445th in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Writer.

Tennessee Williams is most famous for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "A Streetcar Named Desire."

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  • 6.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 77

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tennessee Williams ranks 521 out of 7,302. Before him are Aulus Gellius, Tom Clancy, Alvin Toffler, Henry IV of Castile, Elie Wiesel, and Marie-Antoine Carême. After him are Premchand, Jostein Gaarder, Harold Pinter, Jean Paul, Imadaddin Nasimi, and Pierre de Ronsard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Tennessee Williams ranks 22. Before him are Marshall McLuhan, Jack Ruby, Melvin Calvin, Lê Đức Thọ, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, and Robert Johnson. After him are Klaus Fuchs, Maurice Allais, Wilhelm Mohnke, Polykarp Kusch, Joseph Barbera, and Jean Harlow. Among people deceased in 1983, Tennessee Williams ranks 11. Before him are Luis Buñuel, Umberto II of Italy, Hergé, Idris of Libya, Jon Brower Minnoch, and Felix Bloch. After him are Meyer Lansky, Arthur Koestler, Albert Claude, Nikolai Podgorny, Raymond Aron, and David Niven.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tennessee Williams ranks 534 out of 20,380. Before him are Chester A. Arthur (1829), Anna Politkovskaya (1958), Nelson Rockefeller (1908), Tom Clancy (1947), Alvin Toffler (1928), and Lawrence Kohlberg (1927). After him are Ferid Murad (1936), Anthony Perkins (1932), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Martin Cooper (1928), Jeff Bridges (1949), and Tobin Bell (1942).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Tennessee Williams ranks 50. Before him are Eugene O'Neill (1888), Patricia Highsmith (1921), George R. R. Martin (1948), Robert A. Heinlein (1907), Tom Clancy (1947), and Alvin Toffler (1928). After him are Richard Bach (1936), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), T. S. Eliot (1888), Sidney Sheldon (1917), William S. Burroughs (1914), and James Baldwin (1924).

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