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Tennessee Williams
In 1918, seven-year-old Tennessee Williams moved north with his family to industrial St. Louis. In The Glass Menagerie, he used autobiographical elements to explore the power dynamics within a displaced southern family during the Depression, coping with conflicting values and aspirations. The play became a classic of the American theater.
To learn more about Williams and the American stage:
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/
theatre/stage_williams.html
Typescript of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, ca. 1944.
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature (MSS 6694)