John Williams was an author, editor and professor. Born in 1922 in Texas, he served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. His first novel, Nothing But the Night, was published in 1948. After receiving his PhD in 1954, Williams returned to the University of Denver where he first studied to teach literature and creative writing for thirty years. It was during this time that he wrote the novels Butcher's Crossing (1960) and Stoner (1965). His last novel, Augustus, won the National Book Award in 1973. John Williams died in Arkansas in 1994.
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Stoner es uno de los fenómenos literarios más resonantes de la última década. Convertida en un inesperado best-seller (ha sido traducida a más de veinte lenguas), fue publicada originalmente en Estados Unidos en 1965, y reeditada por Vintage en ... SEE MORE