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MAJOR AUTHORS OF THE PERIOD 
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.

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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.