Who wrote the play "The Glass Menagerie"?

Tennessee Williams wrote the autobiographical play "The Glass Menagerie", reflecting the difficulties of a young man living with his mother and sister in the tenements of Saint Louis during the Depression. The Glass Menagerie was written in 1944, based on reworked material from one of Williams' short stories, "Portrait of a Girl in Glass," and his screenplay, The Gentleman Caller. By mid-January, tickets to the show were some of the hottest items in Chicago, nearly impossible to obtain. Later in 1945, the play opened in New York with similar success. On opening night in New York, the cast received an unbelievable twenty-five curtain calls.