Long before A Streetcar Named Desire, a 16-year-old Tennessee Williams entered (and won) a writing contest posing as a disgruntled divorcee.

The contest topic was ‘Can a good wife be a good sport?’, so Williams took on the persona of a man scorned by his former wife’s infidelity to propose his argument. According to William’s mother, after winning the prize he feared that someone would ‘discover this supposedly sophisticated divorced prize-winner was 16 and had never even dated a woman (Sewanee Review).’