The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Williams, William Carlos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811202267 ISBN 13: 9780811202268

Publisher: New Directions, 1967

Synopsis

The Autobiography is an unpretentious book; it reads much as Williams talked―spontaneously and often with a special kind of salty humor. But it is a very human story, glowing with warmth and sensitivity. It brings us close to a rare man and lets us share his affectionate concern for the people to whom he ministered, body and soul, through a long rich life as physician and writer.

William Carlos Williams’s medical practice and his literary career formed an undivided life. For forty years he was a busy doctor in the town of Rutherford, New Jersey, and yet he was able to write more than thirty books. One of the finest chapters in the Autobiography tells how each of his two roles stimulated and supported the other.

About this title

About the Author:

Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0811202267
• ISBN 13: 9780811202268
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 414