Background
Williams, Thomas Alonzo was born on November 15, 1926 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Son of Thomas Alonzo and Charlotte Clara (Marvin) Williams.
( In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was award...)
In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas Williams. Yet only Stone's Dog Soldiers is still remembered today. That oversight is startling when considering the literary impact of The Hair of Harold Roux. A dazzlingly crafted novel-within-a-novel hailed as a masterpiece, it deserves a new generation of readers. In The Hair of Harold Roux, we are introduced to Aaron Benham: college professor, writer, husband, and father. Aaron-when he can focus-is at work on a novel, The Hair of Harold Roux, a thinly disguised autobiographical account of his college days. In Aaron's novel, his alter ego, Allard Benson, courts a young woman, despite the efforts of his rival, the earnest and balding Harold Roux-a GI recently returned from World War II with an unfortunate hairpiece. What unfolds through Aaron's mind, his past and present, and his nested narratives is a fascinating exploration of sex and friendship, responsibility and regret, youth and middle age, and the essential fictions that see us through. "Williams's novel is terrific: it is sweet, funny and sexy … Williams is an accomplished magician."-Newsweek "Everywhere the language flows from the purest vernacular to the elevations demanded by distilled perception. Our largest sympathies are roused, tormented and consoled."-Washington Post Book World "A wonderfully old-fashioned writer … that dinosaur among contemporary writers of fiction, an actual storyteller."-John Irving
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Williams, Thomas Alonzo was born on November 15, 1926 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Son of Thomas Alonzo and Charlotte Clara (Marvin) Williams.
Student, University Chicago, 1949. Bachelor, University New Hampshire, 1950. Master of Arts, University New Hampshire, 1958.
Postgrad, University Paris, 1951. Postgrad, University Iowa, 1958.
Professor English University New Hampshire, Durham, 1958-1990.
( In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was award...)
(Dust jacket design by The Strimbans. His second novel.)
(The reissue edition. The original was published by Macmil...)
(town burning)
Served to corporal United States Army, 1944-1946. Member Authors Guild, American Association of University Professors.
Married Elizabeth Mae Blood, May 26, 1951. Children— Peter Alonzo, Ann Joslin.