Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams lived in the French Quarter and wrote three of his best known plays, including A Streetcar Named Desire, and numerous short stories in New Orleans. Williams’ first Vieux Carre apartment (which he called “a poetic evocation of all the cheap rooming houses of the world,”) is at 722 Toulouse St., now home to the Historic New Orleans Collection. Williams is the inspiration for the annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival with its famous “Stella” or “Stanley” shouting content