William Carlos Williams

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883 – 1963) is widely recognized as one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century and as an influential founder of literary modernism. In addition to poetry, he authored works of fiction, criticism, drama, and translation. Among his most celebrated books are Spring and All, In the American Grain, Paterson, and Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems for which he posthumously received the Pulitzer Prize. All told, Williams published some twenty books of poetry as well as seventeen books of prose.