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Tennessee Williams
Tennessee was born in Columbus, Mississppi -
Tennessee's family moves
Tennessee's family moves to St. Louis -
University of Missouri
Williams enters the University of Missouri -
Williams accepted his sexual orientation
Williams accepted his sexual orientation and joined a gay circle -
Williams gets pulled out of school
His father forces him to withdraw from school and work in a St. Louis shoe factory -
Williams graduates college
Williams Graduates from the University of Iowa -
Tennessee receives a Rockefeller Grant
He receives a 1,000 Rockefeller Grant -
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie premieres at the Lyric Theater in Chicago -
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award -
William meets his partner
Williams meets and falls in love with Frank Merlo -
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway -
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and New York Drama Critics' Circle Best Play -
Deep Depression
Williams falls into a deep depression after his partner, Frank Merlo dies of lung cancer. -
Nervous Breakdown
Williams has a nervous breakdown. His brother Dakin put him in a psychiatric hospital in St. Louis -
Tennessee Williams found dead
Tennessee Williams was found dead in his suite, he was thought to have choked on the cap of his bottle of eye drops