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Tennessee Williams published his first story in Weird Tales at age 16

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 26, 2026
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Tennessee Williams published his first story in Weird Tales at age 16

Before A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie, before the Pulitzer Prizes and Broadway fame, Tennessee Williams was a teenager selling pulp fiction for $35.

Williams’s debut publication appeared in the August 1928 issue of Weird Tales, the legendary pulp magazine that gave us …

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