Editing Tennessee Williams (section)

==Works==
Characters in his plays are often seen as representations of his family members. Laura Wingfield in ''The Glass Menagerie'' is thought to be modeled on his sister Rose. Some biographers believed that the character of [[Blanche DuBois]] in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' also is based on her and that the mental deterioration of Blanche's character is inspired by Rose's mental health struggles.

Amanda Wingfield in ''The Glass Menagerie'' generally was taken to represent Williams's mother Edwina. Characters such as Tom Wingfield in ''The Glass Menagerie'' and Sebastian in ''Suddenly, Last Summer'' were understood to represent Williams himself. In addition, he used a lobotomy as a [[Motif (literature)|motif]] in ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer]]''.

The [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]] was awarded to ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' in 1948 and to ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' in 1955. These two plays later were adapted as highly successful films by noted directors [[Elia Kazan]] (''Streetcar''), with whom Williams developed a very close artistic relationship, and [[Richard Brooks]] (''Cat''). Both plays included references to elements of Williams's life such as homosexuality, mental instability, and alcoholism.

Although ''[[The Flowering Peach]]'' by [[Clifford Odets]] was the preferred choice of the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1955, and ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' was at first considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., chairman of the Board, had seen ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' and thought it worthy of the drama prize. The Board went along with him after considerable discussion.<ref>Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich, & Erika J. Fischer. ''The Pulitzer Prize Archive: A History and Anthology of Award-Winning Materials in Journalism, Letters, and Arts'', München: K.G. Saur, 2008. {{ISBN|3-598-30170-7}} {{ISBN|978-3-598-30170-4}} p. 246.</ref>

Williams wrote ''[[Something Cloudy, Something Clear|The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer]]'' when he was 29, and worked on it sporadically throughout his life. A semi-autobiographical depiction of his 1940 romance with Kip Kiernan in Provincetown, Massachusetts, it was produced for the first time on October 1, 2006, in Provincetown by the Shakespeare on the Cape production company. This was part of the First Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. ''Something Cloudy, Something Clear'' (1981) is also based on his memories of Provincetown in the 1940s.

His last play went through many drafts as he was trying to reconcile what would be the end of his life.<ref name="wickedlocal1"/> There are many versions of it, but it is referred to as ''[[In Masks Outrageous and Austere]]''.

===Plays===
* ''[[Candles to the Sun]]'' (1936)
* ''[[Fugitive Kind]]'' (1937)
* ''[[Spring Storm]]'' (1937)
* ''Me Vashya'' (1937)
* ''[[Not About Nightingales]]'' (1938)
* ''[[Battle of Angels]]'' (1940)
* ''[[List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams|I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix]]'' (1941)
* ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' (1944)
* ''[[You Touched Me!]]'' (1945)
* ''[[Stairs to the Roof]]'' (1947)
* ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' (1947)
* ''[[Summer and Smoke]]'' (1948)
* ''[[The Rose Tattoo]]'' (1951)
* ''[[Camino Real (play)|Camino Real]]'' (1953)
* ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' (1955)
* ''[[Orpheus Descending]]'' (1957)
* ''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' (1958)
* ''[[Sweet Bird of Youth]]'' (1959)
* ''[[Period of Adjustment]]'' (1960)
* ''[[The Night of the Iguana]]'' (1961)
* ''[[Summer and Smoke|The Eccentricities of a Nightingale]]'' (1962, rewriting of ''Summer and Smoke'')
* ''[[The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore]]'' (1963)
* ''[[List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams|The Mutilated]]'' (1965)
* ''[[The Seven Descents of Myrtle]]'' (1968, aka ''Kingdom of Earth'')
* ''[[In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel]]'' (1969)
* ''[[Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis?]]'' (1969)
* ''[[Small Craft Warnings]]'' (1972)
* ''[[The Two-Character Play]]'' (1973)
* ''[[Out Cry]]'' (1973, rewriting of ''The Two-Character Play'')
* ''[[The Red Devil Battery Sign]]'' (1975)
* ''[[This Is (An Entertainment)]]'' (1976)
* ''[[Vieux Carré (play)|Vieux Carré]]'' (1977)
* ''Tiger Tail'' (1978)
* ''[[A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur]]'' (1979)
* ''[[Clothes for a Summer Hotel]]'' (1980)
* ''[[The Notebook of Trigorin]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Something Cloudy, Something Clear]]'' (1981)
* ''[[A House Not Meant to Stand]]'' (1982)
* ''[[In Masks Outrageous and Austere]]'' (1983)

===Novels===
* ''The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone'' (1950, adapted for films in [[The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone|1961]] and [[The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003 film)|2003]])
* ''Moise and the World of Reason''   (1975)

===Screenplays and teleplays===
* ''[[The Glass Menagerie (1950 film)|The Glass Menagerie]]'' (1950)
* ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' (1951)
* ''[[The Rose Tattoo (film)|The Rose Tattoo]]'' (1955)
* ''[[Baby Doll]]'' (1956)
* ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' (1958)
* ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer (film)|Suddenly, Last Summer]]'' (1959)
* ''[[The Fugitive Kind]]'' (1959)
* ''Ten Blocks on the Camino Real'' (1966)
* ''[[Boom! (1968 film)|Boom!]]'' (1968)
* ''[[Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays]]'' (1984)
* ''[[The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond]]'' (2009; screenplay from 1957)

===Short stories===
* "[[The Vengeance of Nitocris]]" (1928)
* "The Field of Blue Children" (1939)
* "Oriflamme" (1944)
* "The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin" (1951)
* ''[[One Arm and Other Stories]]'' (1948)
** "One Arm"
** "The Malediction"
** "The Poet"
** "Chronicle of a Demise"
** "[[Desire and the Black Masseur]]"
** "Portrait of a Girl in Glass"
** "The Important Thing"
** "[[The Angel in the Alcove]]"
** "The Field of Blue Children"
** "The Night of the Iguana"
** "[[The Yellow Bird (short story)|The Yellow Bird]]"
* ''[[Hard Candy: A Book of Stories]]'' (1954)
**"Three Players of a Summer Game"
**"Two on a Party"
**"The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin"
**"Hard Candy"
**"Rubio y Morena"
**"The Mattress by the Tomato Patch"
**"The Coming of Something to the Widow Holly"
**"The Vine"
**"[[The Mysteries of Joy Rio|The Mysteries of the Joy Rio]]"
*''The Knightly Quest: a Novella and Four Short Stories'' (1966)
**"The Knightly Quest"
**"Mama's Old Stucco House"
**"Man Bring This Up Road"
**"The Kingdom of Earth"
**"Grand"
* ''Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: a Book of Stories'' (1974)
**"Happy August the Tenth"
**"The Inventory at Fontana Belle"
**"Miss Coynte of Greeme"
**"Sabbatha and Solitude"
**"Completed"
**"Oriflamme"
* "Tent Worms" (1980)<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://classic.esquire.com/article/1980/5/1/tent-worms|title=Tent Worms|magazine=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|first=Tennessee|last=Williams|date=May 1, 1980|access-date=May 2, 2024}}</ref>
* ''It Happened the Day the Sun Rose'' (1981), published by [[Sylvester & Orphanos]]
* ''Collected Stories'' (1985) (New Directions)

===One-act plays===
{{Main|List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams}}
Williams wrote more than 70 one-act plays during his lifetime. The one-acts explored many of the same themes that dominated his longer works. Williams's major collections are published by [[New Directions Publishing|New Directions]] in New York City.
* ''American Blues'' (1948)
* ''[[Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays]]'' (2005)
* ''[[List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams|Dragon Country]]: a book of one-act plays'' (1970)
* ''[[The Traveling Companion and Other Plays]]'' (2008)
* ''[[The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays]]'' (2011)
** ''At Liberty'' (1939)
** ''The Magic Tower'' (1936)
** ''Me, Vashya'' (1937)
** ''Curtains for the Gentleman'' (1936)
** ''In Our Profession'' (1938)
** ''Every Twenty Minutes'' (1938)
** ''Honor the Living'' (1937)
** ''The Case of the Crushed Petunias'' (1941)
** ''Moony's Kid Don't Cry'' (1936)
** ''The Dark Room'' (1939)
** ''The Pretty Trap'' (1944)
** ''Interior: Panic'' (1946)
** ''Kingdom of Earth'' (1967)
** ''I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays'' (1973)
** ''Some Problems for the Moose Lodge'' (1980)
* ''[[27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays]]'' (1946 and 1953)
** ''Something Wild...'' (introduction) (1953)
** ''27 Wagons Full of Cotton'' (1946 and 1953)
** ''The Purification'' (1946 and 1953)
** ''The Lady of Larkspur Lotion'' (1946 and 1953)
** ''The Last of My Solid Gold Watches'' (1946 and 1953)
** ''Portrait of a Madonna'' (1946 and 1953)
** ''Auto-da-Fé'' (1946 and 1953)
** ''Lord Byron's Love Letter'' (1946 and 1953)
** ''The Strangest Kind of Romance'' (1946 and 1953)
** ''The Long Goodbye'' (1946 and 1953)
** ''At Liberty'' (1946)
** ''Moony's Kid Don't Cry'' (1946)
** ''Hello from Bertha'' (1946 and 1953)
** ''This Property Is Condemned'' (1946 and 1953)
** ''Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen...'' (1953)
** ''Something Unspoken'' (1953)
* ''Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws and Other One-Act Plays'' (2016)
** ''A Recluse and His Guest'' (1982)
** ''Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws'' (1981)
** ''Steps Must Be Gentle'' (1980)
** ''Ivan's Widow'' (1982)
** ''This Is the Peaceable Kingdom'' (1981)
** ''Aimez-vous Ionesco?'' (c.1975)
** ''The Demolition Downtown'' (1971)
** ''Lifeboat Drill'' (1979)
** ''Once in a Lifetime'' (1939)
** ''The Strange Play'' (1939)
* ''[[The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VI]]''
* ''[[The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VII]]''

===Poetry===
* ''In the Winter of Cities'' (1956)
* ''Androgyne, Mon Amour'' (1977)
* ''[[The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams]]'' (2002)

===Non-fiction===
* ''Memoirs'' (1975) 
* ''[[New Selected Essays: Where I Live]]'' (2009)

===Selected works===
* Gussow, Mel and Holditch, Kenneth, eds. ''Tennessee Williams, Plays 1937–1955'' ([[Library of America]], 2000) {{ISBN|978-1-883011-86-4}}.
** ''Spring Storm''
** ''Not About Nightingales''
** ''Battle of Angels''
** ''I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix''
** ''From 27 Wagons Full of Cotton'' (1946)
*** ''27 Wagons Full of Cotton''
*** ''The Lady of Larkspur Lotion''
*** ''The Last of My Solid Gold Watches''
*** ''Portrait of a Madonna''
*** ''Auto-da-Fé''
*** ''Lord Byron's Love Letter''
*** ''This Property Is Condemned''
** ''The Glass Menagerie''
** ''A Streetcar Named Desire''
** ''Summer and Smoke''
** ''The Rose Tattoo''
** ''Camino Real''
** ''From 27 Wagons Full of Cotton'' (1953)
*** "Something Wild"
*** ''Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen''
*** ''Something Unspoken''
** ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof''
* Gussow, Mel, and Holditch, Kenneth, eds. ''Tennessee Williams, Plays 1957–1980'' ([[Library of America]], 2000) {{ISBN|978-1-883011-87-1}}.
** ''[[Orpheus Descending]]''
** ''Suddenly, Last Summer''
** ''Sweet Bird of Youth''
** ''Period of Adjustment''
** ''The Night of the Iguana''
** ''The Eccentricities of a Nightingale''
** ''[[The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore]]''
** ''The Mutilated''
** ''Kingdom of Earth'' (''The Seven Descents of Myrtle'')
** ''Small Craft Warnings''
** ''Out Cry''
** ''Vieux Carré''
** ''A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur''
** "Crazy Night"<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Purcell|first=Carey|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/crazy-night-unpublished-story-by-tennessee-williams-will-be-featured-in-the-strand-magazine-com-216429|title=''Crazy Night'', Unpublished Story by Tennessee Williams, Will Be Featured in The Strand Magazine|magazine=[[Playbill]]|date=March 25, 2014}}</ref>