Background
Born on August 21, 1921 on the campus of the Goodman, Mississippi-based agricultural school headed by his father (which would later become Holmes Community College), Williams was raised in Cleveland, Mississippi.
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Born on August 21, 1921 on the campus of the Goodman, Mississippi-based agricultural school headed by his father (which would later become Holmes Community College), Williams was raised in Cleveland, Mississippi.
Louisiana State University.
Williams took his undergraduate degree at Delta State University and in 1941, was awarded a master"s degree in journalism from Louisiana State University. Williams joined the Navy in 1942, and was commissioned an ensign in the Naval Reserve. He was stationed on the destroyer the United States Ship Decatur that patrolled the North Atlantic seeking out and destroying German submarines.
Subsequently, he was transferred to the Pacific Theater of Operations, where he was the captain of a Landing Ship (LSM) preparing for the proposed Operation Downfall.
His first novel The Enemy (1951), was based on his combat experiences aboard the submarine destroyer. After being demobilized, Williams became a reporter on the Shreveport Times and, subsequently, the New Orleans Item.
Williams left journalism and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Iowa, subsequently becoming a professor of English at California State University, Los Los Angeles He wrote six novels, one of which, 1959"s Ada Dallas was made in to the 1961 film Ada.
His 1965 novel The Trojans, a roman a clef about the movie industry loosely based on the life of Marilyn Monroe and the debacle of the 1963 movie Cleopatra, became a best seller, selling over a million copies.
His other novels were and Heavily influenced by Ernest Hemingway as a writer, Williams published The Tragic Art of Ernest Hemingway in 1982. Shortly after retiring as a professor, Wirt Williams died of a stroke on June 29, 1986.
He was 64 years old.
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