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William Carlos Williams

1883 - 1963

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William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). In his five-volume poem Paterson (1946–1958), he took Paterson, New Jersey as "my 'case' to work up. It called for a poetry such as I did not know, it was my duty to discover or make such a context on the 'thought.'" Some of his best known poems, "This Is Just to Say" and "The Red Wheelbarrow", are reflections on the everyday. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Carlos Williams is the 1,785th most popular writer (down from 1,737th in 2019), the 2,618th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,178th in 2019) and the 213th most popular American Writer.

Williams is most famous for his poetry and his novels. He was also a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Among writers, William Carlos Williams ranks 1,785 out of 7,302. Before him are Jeffery Deaver, Katsu Kaishū, Handrij Zejler, Hjalmar Söderberg, Upton Sinclair, and Viktor Barna. After him are Izabela Czartoryska, José Carlos Mariátegui, Thomas of Celano, Julien Gracq, Adam Zagajewski, and Gabriel Naudé.

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Among people born in 1883, William Carlos Williams ranks 82. Before him are Henri Delaunay, Karl von Terzaghi, Johnston McCulley, Augustinas Voldemaras, Bogdan Filov, and Marie Under. After him are José Mendes Cabeçadas, Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Walter Huston, Leonid Kulik, Walter Buch, and Henk Sneevliet. Among people deceased in 1963, William Carlos Williams ranks 57. Before him are Eduard Spranger, Karl von Terzaghi, William Beveridge, Camille Chautemps, Sarit Thanarat, and Otto Struve. After him are Ferenc Fricsay, Ngô Đình Nhu, Robert Stroud, Georg Lindemann, Klára Dán von Neumann, and Jacobus Oud.

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Among people born in United States, William Carlos Williams ranks 2,618 out of 20,380. Before him are Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Upton Sinclair (1878), Jason Bateman (1969), Carl Van Vechten (1880), Donna Murphy (1959), and Frank Borman (1928). After him are Danny Elfman (1953), Cardi B (1992), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Edward Kasner (1878), John de Lancie (1948), and Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869).

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Among writers born in United States, William Carlos Williams ranks 213. Before him are Nora Ephron (1941), R. L. Stine (1943), Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), Robert M. Parker Jr. (1947), Jeffery Deaver (1950), and Upton Sinclair (1878). After him are Stephen Crane (1871), Paul Goodman (1911), Elizabeth Bishop (1911), Philip José Farmer (1918), Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), and Sarah Moore Grimké (1792).

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