John Williams was an author editor and professor. Born in 1922 in Texas he served in the
United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China Burma and India. His first novel
Nothing But the Night was published in 1948. After receiving his PhD in 1954 Williams
returned to the University of Denver where he first studied to teach literature and creative
writing for thirty years. It was during this time that he wrote the novels Butcher's Crossing
(1960) and Stoner (1965). His last novel Augustus won the National Book Award in 1973. John
Williams died in Arkansas in 1994.
