"Tennessee, " rather than his birth name of Thomas Lanier Williams.
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On March 27, 1836 Napton married Melinda Williams, daughter of Tennessee Supreme Court justice Thomas Lanier Williams.
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An aside, Melinda Napton's father was the namesake of Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known as writer and playwright Tennessee Williams.
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It was during that first visit that Thomas Lanier Williams _ Tom to his friends _ adopted the name Tennessee, and it became the emblem of his transformation.
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Thomas Lanier Williams III, who would soon adopt the nom de plume Tennessee, was still waiting for his life to begin when he wrote this fascinatingly conflicted melodrama at age 27.
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The words, hopeful and desperate, appear in the private journal of the 27-year-old Thomas Lanier Williams III, who was soon to adopt the first name of Tennessee.
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It was in St . Louis where Williams'philandering father refused to take his son's writing seriously, calling young Thomas Lanier Williams, a budding homosexual who later took the name Tennessee, " Miss Nancy ."
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This first in a two-volume biography of Thomas Lanier Williams ( in nearly 600 pages it takes the playwright from his birth in 1911 to 1945, when he began writing " A Streetcar Named Desire " ) dismantles the facade Williams created with his memoirs and public eccentricities.
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Six hundred closely printed pages may seem a bit excessive to follow the writer Tennessee Williams through only the first 34 years of his 72-year life, or from his birth in 1911 as Thomas Lanier Williams III through his first major success as a playwright with the production of " The Glass Menagerie " in 1945.
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