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This guy is dead, was a very famous American, a man of letters - and was, of course, gay.
Who is he and what is his literary legacy?
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Well, the ID is easy. Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams.
But his literary legacy? That had me stumped !
The two things that come to mind when I think of him are:
a mental image of Brando in a t-shirt in "Streetcar named Desire" - which is hot, but very off-topic.
a large body of plays. The ones I know seem to me largely to portray rather tortured individuals suffering from self-loathing and internalised homophobia ... but then, I've only worked on a couple of them, and this may not be an entirely fair judgement.
A quick spot of research shows that his assets were left to a foundation based at Sewanee, The University of the South, who apparently have a performing arts centre, visiting fellowships etc that honours his name. Is this what you had in mind?
Assuming I'm right, I'll post another pic in a couple of hours - I have go out for a bit.
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