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14 February 2015

9:00 AM

14 February 2015

9:00 AM

He gave himself the name ‘Tennessee’; a creative and public relations masterstroke for a still unknown 28 year-old writer. Born Thomas Lanier Williams in New Orleans in 1911, he died in New York in 1983 having become one of the most famous and successful playwrights of the second half of the 20th century.

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