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With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences.

It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at age 33 he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City.

He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth. Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work.