The films "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", and "The Glass Menagerie" are all based on plays by the same writer. What is his name?

The films "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", and "The Glass Menagerie" are all based on plays written by the American playwright Tennessee Williams. He was a popular writer who received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948.

He wrote the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1947; it is a play that opened on Broadway in December 1947. It closed two years later in December 1949 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. This play is regarded by critics as one of the finest plays of the 20th century, and it is considered by many to be Williams's greatest. It became a movie with the same name in 1951.

Williams' 1944 play "The Glass Menagerie" is a memory play. Its action is drawn from the memories of the narrator, Tom Wingfield. He is an aspiring poet who toils in a shoe warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and sister, Laura. Mr. Wingfield, Tom and Laura’s father, ran off and was never seen again. This play was a five character drama by Williams that truly catapulted him from obscurity to fame. In 1950, "The Glass Menagerie" became an American film drama directed by Irving Rapper. It was the first of Williams' plays to be adapted for the big screen.

With the play, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", it is considered one of Williams's best-known works. This play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. It is set on a plantation in the Mississippi Delta. In the play and 1958 film, Big Daddy Pollitt (a wealthy tycoon) examines relationships among arguing family members.