 From the historical audio archives of Fox News Talk. American playwright Tennessee Williams, who grew up in the Deep South, died in 1983. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. Here, Tennessee Williams explains where he gets the inspiration for his character development. I have always been more interested in my own kind of people, you know, people that have problems, people that have to fight.