In which US state was Tennessee Williams born?
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival New Orleans is not related to the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, which is held annually in October in the childhood hometown of Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams was not native to New Orleans, but he lived in New Orleans's French Quarter at several points in his adult life. Two of his major plays, "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Vieux Carré", and several short stories were set in the historic French Quarter. Shortly after Williams death in 1983, the city of New Orleans experienced an economic recession. Among the proposals to attract tourists back to the French Quarter
John Williams (Tennessee) and served as vice president of the East Tennessee Convention, which sought to create a separate, Union-aligned state in East Tennessee. John Williams was the great-grandfather of Admiral Richmond P. Hobson, and the great-great-grandfather of noted playwright, Tennessee Williams. John Williams (Tennessee) John Williams (January 29, 1778 – August 10, 1837) was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman, operating primarily out of Knoxville, Tennessee, in the first part of the 19th century. He represented Tennessee in the United States Senate from 1815 to 1823, when he lost reelection to Andrew Jackson. Williams also served as colonel of the 39th U.S.