C. K. Williams
C. K. Williams was an American poet, translator, university teacher, writer and literary scholar (1936–2015). He was born at Newark and died at Hopewell.
Also recorded as Charles Kenneth Williams; Charles Kenneth.
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Recognition and collections
C. K. Williams received Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award, National Book Award for Poetry, Berlin Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
Identity
What the record establishes about C. K. Williams.
C. K. Williams is recorded with the occupation university teacher. C. K. Williams is recorded with the occupation literary scholar. C. K. Williams is recorded with the occupation translator. C. K. Williams is recorded as a citizen of United States. C. K. Williams is recorded with the occupation writer. C. K. Williams is recorded with the occupation poet.
C. K. Williams is recorded as poet, translator, university teacher, writer and literary scholar. C. K. Williams is recorded with the citizenship of United States. C. K. Williams is recorded at birth as Charles Kenneth Williams.
Works and catalogued output
What C. K. Williams produced.
Correspondence, Wildenthal, K., Williams, R.J.R, Williamson, A.C. is dated 1962-1972 and held by Wellcome Collection. C.K. Williams: Poetry of youth and age is dated 2001 and held by TED (inventory 500). Wikidata Query Service catalogues 3 works under this heading. Wellcome Collection catalogues 8 works under this heading. Open Library catalogues 29 works under this heading.
Context
The circumstances in which C. K. Williams stands.
Information from various individuals: Robert Fleming, E.J. Storer, C.E. Dolman, K. Rogers, James Craigie, L. Holt, C.J. La Touche, C.G. Paine, A.M. May, A.W. Downie, W.H. Hughes, Robert Cruikshank, A.M. and R.G. Laidlaw, R. Williams, F. Bustinza is dated 1955-1975 and held by Wellcome Collection. Towards safer colonoscopy : a report on the complications of 5000 diagnostic or therapeutic colonscopies / F.A. Macrae, K.G. Tan, and C.B. Williams. is dated 1988 and held by Wellcome Collection. The genus aspergillus / Kenneth B. Raper, Dorothy I. Fennell / with a chapter on pathogenicity [by] Peter K.C. Austwick. is dated 1965 and held by Wellcome Collection. Correspondence and papers relating to the Trust's legal advisers F.C.S. Tufton and K. Miller is dated April 1973-May 1985 and held by Wellcome Collection. C. K. Williams is also recorded as Charles Kenneth Williams; Charles Williams; Charles Kenneth.
Reception
C. K. Williams is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and National Book Award. Open Library catalogues 34 works under this name.
In detail
C. K. Williams studied at University of Pennsylvania and Columbia High School. the recorded working language is English.
Employment is recorded with Princeton University and Drexel University. Membership is recorded of American Academy of Arts and Letters and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Works named in the authority record are Repair and Lies.
Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award and National Book Award for Poetry.
Chronology
- 1936C. K. Williams born at Newark.
- 1936C. K. Williams was born in 1936 at Newark.
- 1936C. K. Williams was born on 4 November 1936.
- 1955Information from various individuals: Robert Fleming, E.J. Storer, C.E. Dolman, K. Rogers, James Craigie, L. Holt, C.J. La Touche, C.G. Paine, A.M. May, A.W. Downie, W.H. Hughes, Robert Cruikshank, A.M. and R.G. Laidlaw, R. Williams, F. Bustinza is dated 1955-1975 and held by Wellcome Collection.
- 1962Correspondence, Wildenthal, K., Williams, R.J.R, Williamson, A.C. is dated 1962-1972 and held by Wellcome Collection.
- 1965The genus aspergillus / Kenneth B. Raper, Dorothy I. Fennell / with a chapter on pathogenicity [by] Peter K.C. Austwick. is dated 1965 and held by Wellcome Collection.
- 1973Correspondence and papers relating to the Trust's legal advisers F.C.S. Tufton and K. Miller is dated April 1973-May 1985 and held by Wellcome Collection.
- 1988Towards safer colonoscopy : a report on the complications of 5000 diagnostic or therapeutic colonscopies / F.A. Macrae, K.G. Tan, and C.B. Williams. is dated 1988 and held by Wellcome Collection.
- 2001C.K. Williams: Poetry of youth and age is dated 2001 and held by TED (inventory 500).
- 2001C.K. Williams: Poetry of youth and age (TED).
- 2015C. K. Williams died at Hopewell.
- 2015C. K. Williams died in 2015 at Hopewell.
- 2015C. K. Williams died on 20 September 2015.
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
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Open Library author record for C. K. Williams (Internet Archive), 34 catalogued works.
Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive
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Wellcome Collection catalogue records 671 works naming C. K. Williams.
museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection
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“C. K. Williams”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q2930440: C. K. Williams
authority record · Unverified · Wikidata
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Photo of C.K. Williams taken by Catherine Mauger, 1986.
Catherine Mauger · Provided by Catherine Mauger, wife of C.K. Williams, for this purpose. · CC BY-SA 4.0
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