Awards Won by Tennessee Williams
From: Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work,
Critical Companion.
Williams was the recipient of numerous national and international awards, which
included two fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation (1939 and 1940); a
grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1944); the New York
Drama Critics Circle Award for The Glass Menagerie (1945), A Streetcar Named
Desire (1948), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and The Night of the
Iguana (1962); the Sidney Howard Memorial Award for The Glass
Menagerie (1945); the Donaldson Award for A Streetcar Named Desire (1948);
the Pulitzer Prize for A Streetcar Named Desire (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof (1955); the Brandeis University Creative Award (1965); the Gold Medal for
Drama by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of
Arts and Letters (1969); the National Theatre Conference Annual Award (1972);
the Centennial Medal of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine (1973);
the Medal of Honor for Literature by the National Arts Club (1975); and the
Entertainment Hall of Fame Award (1974). In addition, Williams received two
honorary degrees, from the University of Missouri (doctor of humanities, 1969)
and the University of Hartford, Connecticut (doctor of literature, honoris causa,
1972). The citation for the Centennial Medal of the Cathedral Church of Saint
John the Divine recognized Williams as the "foremost dramatist of our day, whose
compassion for the suffering of others has served to increase the sensitivity of an
insensitive age, and replace stones with human hearts."
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Life and Work, Critical Companion. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. Bloom's
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