John Edward Williams - Wikipedia
John 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]
Biography of a Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel
2019年2月1日 · In retrospect, it’s easy to look at the life and career of John Williams and see a disconnect. Here’s a writer who was in charge of the Association of Writers and Poets, who networked his way into the lit scene through small presses, and who won the National Book Award for his 1973 novel Augustus.
The Greatest American Novel You’ve Never Heard Of
2013年10月20日 · John Williams has been consigned to that unenviable category inhabited by Richard Yates and James Salter: the writer’s writer.
Stoner (novel) - Wikipedia
Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It was reissued in 1972 by Pocket Books, in 2003 by Vintage [1] and in 2006 by New York Review Books Classics with an introduction by John McGahern. [2] Stoner has been categorized under the genre of the academic novel, or the campus novel. [3]
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel — John Williams and Stoner
2019年1月11日 · There are many quotable lines in John Williams’s novel Stoner but none quite so epigrammatic. It becomes a writer who detested re-writing so much that he rehearsed passages in his mind before...
John Williams (Author of Stoner) - Goodreads
1994年3月3日 · His first novel, Nothing But the Night, was published in 1948, and his first volume of poems, The Broken Landscape, appeared the following year. In the fall of 1955, Williams took over the directorship of the creative writing program at the University of Denver, where he taught for more than 30 years.
John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been
2019年3月11日 · John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been A quarter century after his death, his austere, unflashy masterpiece was acclaimed a “perfect novel.” Does it belong to a larger lineage of ...
John Williams - Colorado Encyclopedia
John Edward Williams (1922–94) was a novelist and professor at the University of Denver, where he founded Denver Quarterly and helped build the school’s creative writing program.
Williams, John Edward - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
2024年6月26日 · John Edward Williams, now considered a major twentieth-century American novelist but unheralded while living, spent the last several years of his life in Fayetteville (Washington County). Williams’s reputation stands primarily on his three major novels: Butcher’s Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and Augustus (1972); Augustus shared the ...
Stoner by John Williams - Goodreads
John 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.
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