1883 - 1963
Country of origin: USA

Trite though it may be to say, Williams remains the ultimate physician writer - a life-long practicing physician, who wrote prolifically in all the major genres, encouraged the literary careers of many of his contemporaries, is recognized as a significant figure in modern American literature, and is still actually read. A 1906 medical graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he interned, studied briefly in Europe, then opened a general practice in Rutherford, New Jersey, which he maintained until ill health forced his retirement in 1948. He was a friend of many of the artists and writers of his time, from Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) from the U Penn years, to Louis Zukofsky and Allen Ginsberg; and, after tardy recognition, recipient of many honors during his life (National Book Award, Consultantship in Poetry at the Library of Congress, Bollingen Award, to mention a few) and posthumously (Pulitzer and Gold Medal for Poetry). Only a few of his many volumes are listed below.

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A beginning on the short story (1950)

A correspondence (1984)

A dream of love (1948)

A novelette, and other prose (1921-1931) (1932)

A voyage to Pagany (1928)

Dear Ez (1985)

I wanted to write a poem (1977)

Imaginations (1971)

Interviews with William Carlos Williams (1976)

Journey to love (1955)

Life along the Passaic River (1938)

Make light of it (1950)

Selected essays of William Carlos Williams (1954)

Selected letters (1957)

Spring and all (1923)

The American idiom (1990)

The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (1951)

The broken span (1941)

The desert music, and other poems (1954)

The doctor stories (1984)

The Knife of the Times (1932)

William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin (1989)

Yes, Mrs. Williams (1959)

Background

Wallace, Emily Mitchell. A bibliography of William Carlos Williams (1968)

Guimond, James. The art of William Carlos Williams (1968)

Wagner-Martin, Linda. . The poems of William Carlos Williams (1964)

Miki, Roy. The prepoetics of William Carlos Williams (1983)

Wagner-Martin, Linda. . The prose of William Carlos Williams (1970)

Sayre, Henry M. The visual text of William Carlos Williams (1983)

Whitaker, Thomas R. William Carlos Williams (1968)

Tashjian, Dickran. William Carlos Williams and the American scene, 1920-1940 (1978)

Bremen, Brian A. William Carlos Williams and the diagnostics of culture (1993)

Cushman, Stephen. William Carlos Williams and the meanings of measure (1985)

Marling, William. William Carlos Williams and the painters, 1909-1923 (1982)

Conarroe, Joel. William Carlos Williams' Paterson (1970)

Loevy, Steven Ross. William Carlos Williams's A dream of love (1983)

Lloyd, Margaret Glynne. William Carlos Williams's Paterson (1980)

Breslin, James E.B. William Carlos Williams, an American artist (1970)

Mariani, P. William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company; 1981.

Whittemore, R. William Carlos Williams: Poet from New Jersey. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; 1975.

Drama

Many Loves and Other Plays: The Collected Plays of William Carlos Williams (1961)

Fiction

In the Money (1940)

The Build-Up (1952)

The Farmer's Daughters: The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams (1961)

The Great American Novel (1923)

White Mule (1937)

Letters

The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957)

Poetry