Considered perhaps the greatest American playwright, Tennessee
             Williams was raised in Mississippi and achieved success early on in his
             career when he won the New York Critics' Circle Award in 1944-45 for the
             Broadway debut of The Glass Menagerie. Williams went on to win the same
             award and the Pulitzer Prize for A Streetcar Named Desire a mere three
             years later. Despite all his fame and fortune, Williams loathed being a
             celebrity. He found comfort in his relationship with Frank Merlo, who
             tragically died in 1961 from Lung Cancer. Williams fell into a deep
             depression soon after, and he too passed away tragically in a hotel room in
             New York in 1983 from a drug overdose.
             Alongside great writers in American Literature like Williams, Ring
             Lardner is considered one of America's greatest short story writers. While
             he never wrote a novel, Lardner was well acquainted with F. Scott
             Fitzgerald whose editor helped publish Lardner's works. His only playwright
             success came from a comedy he co-wrote with George S. Kaufman, called June
             Moon. Ring Lardner was initially a sports columnist, which was why it was
             fitting that his first publication was a short stories anthology centering
             round baseball. Lardner died in 1933, but left behind a legacy of memorable
             Tennessee Williams spent much of his youth and formative years in and
             around the cinema. Many critics account this for his desire to escape the
             stormy marriage of his parents and to find solitude in a world that was not
             ready to accept his sexuality. This formation of an understanding of how
             the camera aids the story gave Williams the ability to present his plays in
             such a manner that transfixed theater audiences into believing his central
             According to an article in the Tennessee Williams Annual Review, "In
             his dual role as both narrator and character in the play, Tom Wingfield
             -similar to the camera- performs not only as th...