Tennesse Williams, A streetcar Named Desire
His biography :
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/
A Study guide is available (though not complete) on:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/streetcar/
Some essays worth reading:
Traditionalism vs. defiance in a Streetcar named Desire
Chekhov's influence on the work of Tennessee Williams
Morality and immorality (the Picture of Dorian Gray and a Streetcar Named Desire)
Les Editions du Temps ont publié "Synthèse sur Un tramway nommé désir" de Agnès Roche-Lajtha. Voici le premier chapitre de cette ouvrage Chapitre 1: génèse d'Une Tramway Nommé Désir (pdf, 257 ko, 21 pages)
If you've got time, you can read the message board:
http://mb.sparknotes.com/mb.epl?b=563
The film
On Elia Kazan:
http://movies.go.com/news/2003/9/kazanobit092903.html
http://www.thegoldenyears.org/kazan.html
On the movie: http://movies.go.com/movies/S/streetcarnameddesirea_1951/index.html