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The huge success of his next play, A Streetcar Named Desire, in 1947 secured his reputation as a great playwright.

Although widely celebrated and increasingly wealthy, he was still restless and insecure in the grip of fears that he would not be able to duplicate his success.

During the late 1940s and 1950s Williams began to travel widely with his partner Frank Merlo, often spending summers in Europe.

To stimulate his writing he moved often, to various cities including New York, New Orleans, Key West, Rome, Barcelona, and London.

Williams wrote, " Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.