This site contains information related to the conference, including programs that list many scholars who are currently doing work on Williams.

Hippodrome State Theatre: The Glass Menagerie
http://hipp.gator.net/glass_menagerie.html

A short history of The Glass Menagerie, plus links to the author.

Fifty Years of Desire
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/
streetcar_11-11a.html

Along with a background report on the latest production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Elizabeth Farnsworth talks to the director and a Williams biographer about the enduring nature of the play and the playwright.

A Streetcar Named Desire
http://www.filmsite.org/stre.html

An extensive review of the 1951 film.

Love and Death in Tennessee Williams
http://jackfritscher.com/tennessee/

This dissertation by John J. Fritscher has already been partially published in Modern Drama and in the Journal of Popular Culture.

The Playwright Tennessee Williams
http://hipp.gator.net/scarplaywright.html

The Hippodrome State Theatre, North Florida's only professional regional theater, has created a unique site on Tennessee Williams. They've included pictures, links to their 1998 production of A Glass Menagerie, and links to notes on his setting and characters, poetic references, and discussion topics.

The Mississippi Writer's Page: Tennessee Williams
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/

This thorough biography also includes a list of publications, productions and films, a bibliography, and other Internet resources.

BIOGRAPHY
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983). Thomas Lanier Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi, but grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. His "lonely and miserable" childhood, as he characterized it, was in large part due to an unsympathetic father and to schoolmates who often taunted him because of his small size and lack of physical prowess. A year before he was to graduate from the University of Missouri, his father removed him from college and got him a job with the International Shoe Company, where he worked by day and wrote by night. Three years later, he suffered a nervous breakdown and, while recovering at his grandparents' home in Memphis, Tennessee, wrote his first play. With his grandparents' financial help, he attended the University of Iowa, and earned a B.A. in 1938.

In 1939, on the basis of a compilation of four one-act plays called American Blues (published in 1948), Williams won a playwriting grant and recognition as a promising playwright. The promise was fulfilled in 1945 with The Glass Menagerie. This was followed two years later with the equally successful A Streetcar Named Desire (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948). From then until his death, Williams's reputation as a premier American dramatist grew with such plays as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Suddenly Last Summer (1958), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). Williams also published six volumes of prose and three volumes of poetry.