K2501

Literary Arts

Tennessee Williams

Collins Cover Announcement 

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Tennessee Williams received two Pulitzer Prizes -- one for "A Streetcar Named Desire" and one for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Other memorable and acclaimed works were "The Glass Menagerie" and "Sweet Bird of Youth." In his writings, Williams had an innovative technique of combining Southern idioms with bold themes. His literary legacy has left a lasting impression on the American theater.

My hand-painted cachet for this stamp is a little different from my usual style. It is a composite of two scenes from two different works -- "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Sweet Bird of Youth." I devote half of the cover to each scene and I think they capture the poignant emotional impact that Williams conveyed to the audience. That was my goal in this cachet expression.

The attractive stamp is postmarked in Clarksdale, Mississippi where Thomas Lannier Williams spent the first eight years of his boyhood. From the beginning, he began writing using his nickname of "Tennessee" and it stuck. Throughout his life, Williams received many literary awards for his writing genius. A forthright and often controversial author, the new stamp shows him in a white Southern-style suit with a streetcar pictured over his shoulder. Thomas Lanier Williams forever to be remembered as "Tennessee". Item #K2501. $11.75.