Tennessee Williams

Dead

Born: 3/26/1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, USA
Died: 2/24/1983
Age: 71
Cause of death: accidental asphyxiation while drunk

Full name: Thomas Lanier Williams
Noted For: playwright; works include "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947), and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1955). Won Pulitzer Prizes for both of these works.