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(1883-1963) William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, into a Spanish speaking household. Williams received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he met Ezra Pound. Williams worked in Manhattan, New York, and was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1952.

Full Name

William Carlos Williams

Locations

Erie

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Williams worked in Manhattan, New York.

1883

BIRTH

William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1883.

1913

LITWORK

The Tempers


Collection of poetry.

1920

LITWORK

Kora in Hell


Series of prose poems.

1925

LITWORK

In The American Grain


Collection of essays.

1934

LITWORK

Collected Poems: 1921 - 1931


Collection of poetry.

1940

OTHER

Williams was a frequent visitor, during the 1940s and 50s, of Charles Abbott, director of university libraries at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1934 to 1960, and founder of the university's poetry collection.

1946

LITWORK

Paterson


First of a series of books of a long poem.

1950

LITWORK

Collected Later Poems


Collection of poetry.

1951

LITWORK

Autobiography of William Carlos Williams


Autobiography.

1951

LITWORK

Collected Earlier Poems


Collection of poetry.

1954

LITWORK

Desert Music


Collection of poetry.

1962

LITWORK

Pictures from Brueghel, and Other Poems


Collection of poetry; winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

1963

DEATH

William Carlos Williams died in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1963.

1963

INTERMENT

William Carlos Williams is buried in the Hillside Cemetery, Lyndhurst, New Jersey.

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