ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

THOMAS WILLIAMS was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1926, went to New Hampshire when he entered high school and-except for Army service in Japan and graduate work at the Universities of Chicago, Iowa and Paris —has been living there ever since. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, and The Saturday Evening Post. One was awarded an O. Henry Prize; others have been included in Best American Short Stories. His novel, Town Burning, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1960, and his volume of short stories, A High New House, received the Dial Fellowship for Fiction in 1963. He has also been a Guggenheim fellow and was recently awarded a Rockefeller grant for 1968-69. He now lives in Durham, New Hampshire, with his wife and two children and is at work on a new novel, The Hair of Harold Roux.