Having trained as a radioman during his seafaring career, Williams worked as an electronics inspector, first for RCA in Galveston, Texas, and later at Puget Sound Navy Yard in Washington State.
He served for ten years before quitting to marry Lasca Foster. After attending school through tenth grade, in 1929 he enlisted with the US Merchant Marine. Williams was born in the central Texas town of San Angelo. A dozen of his books have been adapted for movies, most popularly Dead Calm and The Hot Spot. His 1951 debut, the paperback novel Hill Girl, sold more than a million copies. He is regarded by some critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. Williams (Aug– April 5, 1975) was an American author of crime fiction. His prolific writing career also included religious services, theology, literary criticism, biography, and theatre.Charles K. Williams remained in Oxford until his death in 1945. While in Oxford, Williams took up tutoring and lectured for the English Faculty, earning him an honourary MA in 1943. Consequently, when Williams moved to Oxford with the University Press upon the outbreak of the Second World War, he was invited to join the 'Inklings': a literary discussion group including Lewis and J.R.R. Lewis in 1936 after exchanging letters of mutual respect for each other's writings. They had one son, Michael Stansby Williams, in 1922.Ĭharles Williams gained the friendship of C.S.
Inspired by Dante, and an interest in the church, Williams wrote several spiritually-themed novels and Arthurian poetry based on the idea of romantic love as a way to God a love he experienced in his marriage to Florence Sarah (Michal) Conway.
In 1908, he gained a post as a reader at Oxford University Press in Amen House, where he would later write play scripts for his colleagues. Subsequently, he found work in the Methodist Book Room. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945) attended St Albans School followed by the University of London in 1901, but a lack of funding limited his studies to two years.
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