Legendary playwright Thomas “Tennessee” Williams, whose classic cinema converted plays include A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, shares a significant link to Memphis. After stints at the universities of Missouri and Iowa, Williams moved in with his grandparents at their home in Memphis, where he was a member of an amateur summer theater group. It is here where he wrote one of his first plays, Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay! It was first performed at a residence at 1780 Glenview, also in Memphis, by “The Rose Arbor Players.” Williams died in 1983 at the age of 71 in New York City.
