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American writer

Not to be confused with Thomas Chatterton Williams.

Thomas Williams (November 15, 1926 – October 23, 1990) was an American novelist.^[1] He won one U.S.

National Book Award for Fiction—The Hair of Harold Roux split the 1975 award with Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers^[2][3][4]—and his last published novel, The Moon Pinnace (1986), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.^[5]

Life and work

Born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1926,^[6] Williams and his family moved to New Hampshire when he was a child and he spent most of his life working and writing in that state, although he attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of Chicago, and studied briefly in Paris.

For most of his career he taught at the University of New Hampshire, and published eight novels during his lifetime.^[5] His students included among them Alice McDermott and John Irving.^[