John Edward Williams - Wikipedia
WEBJohn Edward Williams (August 29, 1922 – March 3, 1994) was an American author, editor and professor. He was best known for his novels Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and Augustus (1972), [1] which won a U.S. National Book Award. [2]
Charles Williams (British writer) - Wikipedia
WEBCharles Walter Stansby Williams (20 September 1886 – 15 May 1945) was an English poet, novelist, playwright, theologian and literary critic. Most of his life was spent in London, where he was born, but in 1939 he moved to Oxford with the university press for which he worked and was buried there following his early death.
Charles Williams (American author) - Wikipedia
WEBCharles K. Williams (August 13, 1909 – April 5, 1975) was an American author of crime fiction. He is regarded by some critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1951 debut, the paperback novel Hill Girl, sold more than a million copies.
John Williams (Author of Stoner) - Goodreads
WEBMar 3, 1994 · John Williams (Author of Stoner) Discover new books on Goodreads. See if your friends have read any of John Williams's books. Join Goodreads. John Williams’s Followers (1,904) Born. in Clarksville, Texas, The United States. August 29, 1922. Died. March 03, 1994. Genre. Fiction, Poetry. edit data.
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel — John Williams and Stoner
WEBJan 11, 2019 · An exemplary biography of one of America’s most unusual writers grounds the novel in his own literary awakening. John Williams © University of Texas Press.
Stoner by John Williams - Goodreads
WEBJohn Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.
A Tribute To John Williams, The Man Who Wrote 'I Am'
WEBJul 13, 2015 · The prolific author tackled difficult issues of race in novels and poetry. He used his writing to challenge assumptions about African-Americans, including civil rights hero Martin...
John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been
WEBMar 11, 2019 · For almost twenty years after his death, in 1994, Williams appeared doomed to near-oblivion—omitted from every list, popular or scholarly, canonical or hipster-revisionist. If he had any sort of...
John Williams - Library of America
WEBSep 6, 2022 · John Williams, “The ‘Western’: Definition of the Myth”. September 6, 2022. Major works: Butcher’s Crossing | Stoner | Augustus. “John Williams’s Stoner is something rarer than a great novel—it is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, that it takes your breath away.”—Morris Dickstein, The ...
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel - Harvard Review
WEBOct 20, 2020 · The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel. by Charles J. Shields. reviewed by Emily Van Duyne. The title of this biography of the mid-twentieth-century American writer John Williams is a reference to Williams’s third novel, Stoner.
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