William Carlos Williams Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine with a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician," but excelled at both.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, United States Poet Laureate, Bollingen Prize, National Book Award for Poetry, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry
Nominations
National Book Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Nonfiction
Star Sign
Virgo
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Fact
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Pictured on one of ten USA nondenominated commemorative postage stamps celebrating "20th Century Poets", issued as a pane of 20 stamps on 21 April 2012. Other stamps in this issued honored Joseph Brodsky, Gwendolyn Brooks, e.e. cummings, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Denise Levertov, and Theodore Roethke. The price of each stamp on day of issue was 45¢.
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He was elected into the 2008 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his services and contributions to Literature.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Term
2003
Short poem "The Term"
26 Summer Street
1996
Short story "The Girl with the Pimply Face"
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Classical Baby (I'm Grown Up Now): The Poetry Show