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