Tennessee Williams , one of the 20th century's most superb writers, was also one of its most successful and prolific. His classic works include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, Camino Real, Sweet Bird of Youth, Night of the Iguana, Orpheus Descending, and The Rose Tattoo.
Novels
Collections
27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1945)
Four Plays (1956)
In the Winter of Cities (poems) (1956)
Hard Candy (1959)
Three Players of a Summer Game (1960)
Five Plays (1962)
The Knightly Quest (1966)
One Arm, and Other Stories (1967)
Dragon Country (1970)
Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed (1975)
Androgyne, Mon Amour (poems) (1977)
It Happened the Day the Sun Rose (1983)
Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays (1984)
Collected Stories (1988)
American Blues (1990)
Baby Doll and Tiger Tail (1991)
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays (2000)
Baby Doll and Other Plays (2001)
The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays (2001)
The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams (poems) (2002)
Tales of Desire (2010)
Four Plays (1956)
In the Winter of Cities (poems) (1956)
Hard Candy (1959)
Three Players of a Summer Game (1960)
Five Plays (1962)
The Knightly Quest (1966)
One Arm, and Other Stories (1967)
Dragon Country (1970)
Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed (1975)
Androgyne, Mon Amour (poems) (1977)
It Happened the Day the Sun Rose (1983)
Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays (1984)
Collected Stories (1988)
American Blues (1990)
Baby Doll and Tiger Tail (1991)
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays (2000)
Baby Doll and Other Plays (2001)
The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays (2001)
The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams (poems) (2002)
Tales of Desire (2010)
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Books containing stories by Tennessee Williams
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2008)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and John Updike
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Tennessee Williams recommends
63: Dream Palace (1956)
James Purdy
"Purdy may shock and offend... But he will surely enchant the reader."
Two Serious Ladies (1943)
Jane Bowles
"My favorite book. I can't think of a modern novel that seems more likely to become a classic."
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