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   Who wrote John Williams?

   • In 2018, a biography of Williams written by Charles J. Shields titled The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life was published by the University of Texas Press.

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   Who is John Williams?

   • And yet it goes on being largely undiscovered in its own country, passed around and praised only among a bookish cognoscenti, and its author, John Williams, consigned to that unenviable category inhabited by such august company as Richard Yates and James Salter: the writer’s writer.

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   Did John Williams write Stoner?

   • The title of this biography of the mid-twentieth-century American writer John Williams is a reference to Williams’s third novel, Stoner. First published in 1965, Stoner was “lightly reviewed,” selling only about 2000 copies in its first year of publication.

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   Who is John Williams in the man who wrote the perfect novel?

   • Charles J. Shields’s sketchy portrayal of John Williams in The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel reads like Williams’s own portrayal of Stoner, absent the integrity that makes the fictional hero so appealing. Stoner loves his wife Edith deeply, despite her coldness, and tries hard to make their marriage work.

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   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), which won a U.S. National Book Award.

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   Jan 11, 2019 · The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel — John Williams and Stoner. An exemplary biography of one of America’s most unusual writers grounds the novel in his own literary awakening. John Williams ©...

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   Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It was reissued in 1972 by Pocket Books, in 2003 by Vintage and in 2006 by New York Review Books Classics with an introduction by John McGahern. Stoner has been categorized under the genre of the academic novel, or the campus novel.

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   Mar 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 (1,834) Born. in Clarksville, Texas, The United States. August 29, 1922. Died. March 03, 1994. Genre. Fiction, Poetry. edit data.

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   Oct 20, 2013 · John Williams has been consigned to that unenviable category inhabited by Richard Yates and James Salter: the writer’s writer.

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   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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    Oct 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.