Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) was an American dramatist, poet, and novelist who was awarded two Pulitzer prizes for drama and four Drama Critics Circle awards. Brilliant and prolific, he breathed life and passion into such memorable characters as Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski in Streetcar Named Desire. Like them, he was troubled and self-destructive, abusing alcohol and drugs. Derided by critics and blacklisted by Roman Catholic Cardinal Spellman, who condemned one of his scripts as “revolting, deplorable, morally repellent, offensive to Christian standards of decency”, he remains one of the greatest playwrights in American history. After Shakespeare, he has been translated into more foreign languages than any other English language playwright. SF Bay Times Article
Plaque located on Castro between 17th and 18th Sts