3 books by Thomas Williams
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Overview: Born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1926, Williams’ 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. His students included among them Alice McDermott and John Irving. Irving wrote an introduction to a posthumous collection of Williams’s collected stories, Leah, New Hampshire (1992). Williams lived in Durham, NH and died of lung cancer at a hospital in Dover, NH when he was 63.
Williams is the father of writer and novelist Ann Joslin Williams who is the author of a collection of linked stories called The Woman in the Woods, which won the 2005 Spokane Prize. Joslin Williams’ first novel Down From Cascom Mountain, was published in 2011. Like her father, she attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and (as of 2011) is a Professor at the University of New Hampshire.
Genre: Fiction | General Fiction/Classics
Whipple’s Castle
Set in Williams’ fictional city of Leah, New Hampshire, Whipple’s Castle is a mansion within the town where the Whipple family resides–husband, wife, three sons and a daughter, each with their own worries and dilemmas. Williams takes a close look at the darker side of small-town life through this family and their lives in this novel set in the 40’s.
Tsuga’s Children
Tsuga’s Children is a story of adventure, and of the knowledge of death and survival in an environment whose outer world is almost as dangerous as its inner one. It is a celebration of the old-fashioned virtues of bravery, kindness and honor in an implacable landscape–yet one not wholly indifferent, because it has sustained human beings for as long as our spirits have merged with it. It is a story of ambition, and of the demands and rewards of power.
The Moon Pinnace
A love story that takes on all the passion and pain of early adulthood. A great look at post–World War II America.
—Chicago Tribune …warm and brilliant novel.
… so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.
—George Santayana,
The Life of Reason
… American love of country has always been a curiously general affair, almost an abstract one.
—Henry Steele Commager,
The Nature of American Nationalism
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