William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was an American poet and a medical doctor. His mother was born in Puerto Rico.  His father was raised in the Dominican Republic. 

Williams' autobiography was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1952. In 1963 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Pictures from Brueghel.  He also wrote short stories and novels.  He was a major writer of modernist literature. He was friends with other important American poets such as Ezra Pound and Allen Ginsberg.  

Some of his famous books are Kora in Hell (1920), Spring and All (1923), Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962), and the epic poem Paterson (1963, 1992).

Books

 Poems (1909)
 The Tempers (1913)
 Al Que Quiere! (1917)
Kora in Hell: Improvisations (1920)
 Sour Grapes (1921)
 Spring and All (1923)
 In the American Grain (1925)
 The Knife of the Times, and Other Stories (1932)
 Collected Poems, 1921–1931 (1934)
 An Early Martyr and Other Poems (1935)
 Adam & Eve & The City (1936)
 White Mule (1937)
 The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906–1938 (1938)
 The Broken Span (1941)
 The Wedge (1944)
 Paterson Book I (1946); Book II (1948); Book III (1949); Book IV (1951); Book V (1958)
 The Collected Later Poems (1950; rev. ed.1963)
 The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (1951)
 The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957)
 The Farmers' Daughters: Collected Stories (1961)
 Collected Earlier Poems (1951; rev. ed., 1966)
 The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954)
 Journey to Love (1955)
 Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962)
 Paterson (Books I–V in one volume), (1963)

 Related pages 
List of poets from North America

 References 

Other websites
William Carlos Williams at PennSound

Category:1883 births
Category:1963 deaths
Category:American poets
Category:American physicians