In 1939 he changes his name to "Tennessee" on "The field of Blue Children". .
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Months later he was awarded $1,000 Rockefeller grant, and he begins to write full-length plays. (Leverich 200-203).
From 1943 Tennessee Williams spends most of his time writing full lengths plays. His award winning play "Battle of Angles" won a thousand dollars from the National Institute of Arts Letters. One of his major works "The Glass Menagerie" opens in theatre in 1944, and 1945 in New York and wins New York critics award. In 1947 his other famous work "A streetcar named desire" opens in New York, and wins second New York Critics" Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize. In 1955 "Cat on the hot tin roof" wins his third Critics" Circle award and second Pulitzer Prize. For the next thirty years Tennessee Williams wrote numerous works and plays. In 1982 at age of seventy-one he receives an honorary degree from Harvard University. (Falk 25-33).
In most of Tennessee's works, his writing usually surrounds the themes of sex, violence, and the exploration of desire. These themes are presented in almost all his works and some of his well known work are the plays "You touched me!", "a streetcar named desire", "the rose tattoo", "cat on a hot tin roof", and "the night of the iguana". Tennessee's works are always related to these topics .
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because he has the talent in creating the mood and putting his feelings of these themes into words. (Faulk 36-40).
In his most important play "The glass menagerie" is a direct parallel to his life. It is this play that took him out of poverty and gains him fame. Tom's sister Rose had mental breakdown, and for years he cannot overcome his sense of "entrapment", he fashioned great drama and transform Rose into fragile Laura, and his mother Edwina into Amanda Wingfield, in his first great work "The glass Menagerie". (Bloom 85).
"The night of the iguana" began as a short story in 1948.
