Forty-two years ago today, on February 24, 1983 (January 12, 1983 in the lunar calendar), American theater writer Tennessee Williams died in New York City. American theater writer Tennessee Williams died in New York City on February 24, 1983 at the age of 72. Thomas Lanier Williams III, an American playwright, is known around the world under the pen name Tennessee Williams. The 1944 play "Glass Menagerie" gave Williams his first success. His main work is "A Streetcar Desire"(1947), his second successful work, describing the spiritual and moral decline of the protagonist Blanche Dubois. In addition,"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" in 1955 was about the sinister relationship in the family. Most of Williams 'works describe the dreary life in the southern United States, and the characters in the play are all in social conflicts.