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American writer (1922–1994)
Also known as: John Williams, John E. Williams, Джон Эдвард Уильямс, جون وليامز, 존 에드워드 윌리엄스, ジョン・A・ウィリアムズ (作家)
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Restrained, unsentimental prose about quiet mid-century American disappointment and failed marriages. (AI reason)
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Measured literary realism about academic life, marriage and the American West. (AI reason)
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- Stoner (1965)
- Butcher's Crossing (1960)
- Augustus (1972)
- English Renaissance Poetry (1990)
- Nothing but the night (1948)