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Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
Tennessee Williams, a native of Mississippi, was one of 
the more complex individuals on the American literary scene of the mid- 20th century. His work 
focused on disturbed emotions and unresolved sexuality within families -- most of them southern. 
He was known for incantatory repetitions, a poetic southern diction, weird Gothic settings, and 
Freudian exploration of sexual desire. One of the first American writers to live openly as a 
homosexual, Williams explained that the sexuality of his tormented characters expressed their 
loneliness. His characters live and suffer intensely.
Williams wrote more than 20 full-length dramas, many of them autobiographical. He 
reached his peak relatively early in his career -- in the 1940s -- with 
The Glass Menagerie
(1944) 
and 
A Streetcar Named Desire
(1947). None of the works that followed over the next two decades 
and more reached the level of success and richness of those two pieces.
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
Katherine Anne Porter's long life and career 
encompassed several eras. Her first success, the story "Flowering Judas" (1929), was set in Mexico 
during the revolution. The beautifully crafted short stories that gained her renown subtly unveil 
personal lives. "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," for example, conveys large emotions with 
precision. Often she reveals women's inner experiences and their dependence on men.
Porter's nuances owe much to the stories of the New Zealand- born story writer Katherine 
Mansfield. Porter's story collections include 
Flowering Judas
(1930), 
Noon Wine
(1937), 
Pale 
Horse
, Pale Rider (1939), 
The Leaning Tower
(1944), and 
Collected Stories
(1965). In the early 
1960s, she produced a long, allegorical novel with a timeless theme -- the responsibility of humans 
for each other. Titled 
Ship of Fools
(1962), it was set in the late 1930s aboard a passenger liner 
carrying members of the German upper class and German refugees alike from the Nazi nation.
Not a prolific writer, Porter nonetheless has influenced generations of authors, among them 
her southern colleagues Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor.

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