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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 [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]
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]
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...
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.
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Oct 20, 2013 · In one of those few gratifying instances of belated artistic justice, John Williams’s “Stoner” has become an unexpected bestseller in Europe after being translated and championed by the French...
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Mar 3, 1994 · “In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.” ― John Williams, Stoner
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.
