As an writer Williams used his personal life as tools. He wrote about his alcoholic problems, and his homosexuality. He also used his family and friends for subjects and characters for his plays, stories and novels. Exceptionally Williams set the story of his novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950) in Rome. The protagonist, Mrs. Stone, is recently widowed and settles in Rome where she starts an affair with the young and expensive Paolo.
For Williams the 1960�s were a tough time. He struggled with drugs mostly. After the death of Merlo in 1961, it made it hard for Williams to get off of drugs. Williams was in deep depression for 10 years. Williams also became jealous of younger playwrights. In 1969 he spent two months on a detoxification program, aimed to help him get off the bottle. During these times he wrote In The Bar Of A Tokyo Hotel, which dealt with the difficulty of creating a work of art. He also wrote The Two Character Play which failed on Broadway.
Williams frank Memoirs was produced in 1975. His final play, A House Not Meant to Stand, had its premier at the Goodman Theatre of Chicago in 1982.
Williams, after a hard core night of drinking, choked to death on February 25, 1983, at the Hotel Elysee in New York City.
