John Edward Williams

The Profile

American novelist and teacher, author of Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965) and Augustus (1972). Augustus won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born 1922, died 1994.

Born August 29, 1922; died March 3, 1994. Author of Butcher's Crossing, Stoner, and Augustus (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1973).

The provided review praises Stoner as a quietly powerful novel about a life shaped by literature and teaching. Readers highlight the book's themes of resilience, perseverance, friendship and mortality. The reviewer describes the reading as emotionally absorbing and difficult to put down.