John Edward Williams
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American writer (1922–1994)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- A new charter for the United Nations
- Llythyr a llên
- Offrwm
- Porth Cwyfan
- A provisional handbook for Graded Syntax, a language development scheme which teaches sentence structure
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 7
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,591x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,499x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,910x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,581x
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Quotes
- “A necessary strategy of literary criticism is to propose problems, and a necessary illusion is that those problems can be solved. But the problems and solutions are more often than not celebrations of the literature they address and gestures that would bring us closer to a past that is forever receding from us. The force of literature is at last magical, and the mysteries that we try to solve are the validations of its power.”
- “Do not tempt us with the poet's twisted pride.Here is the double fact that we must grasp—The sea is lonely and the land is wide.”
- “Sometimes he stood in the center of the quad, looking at the five huge columns in front of Jesse Hall that thrust upward into the night out of the cool grass. ... Grayish silver in the moonlight, bare and pure, they seemed to him to represent the way of life he had embraced, as a temple represents a god.”
- “... he could not bring himself to hate the Germans.But the Germans were there to be hated.”
- “He went out of the office into the darkness of the long corridor and walked heavily into the sunlight, into the open world that was like a prison wherever he turned.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1922-08-29 ) August 29, 1922, Clarksville, Texas , US
- Died
- March 3, 1994 (1994-03-03) (aged 71), Fayetteville, Arkansas
- Occupation
- Author editor professor
- Genre
- Novel
- Notable works
- Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), Augustus (1972)
- Notable awards
- National Book Award , 1973 Augustus
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Life
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