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John Williams (1922—1994) was born in Texas. He taught for many years at the University of Denver, where he was head of the creative writing program. Williams won the 1973 National Book Award in fiction for Augustus. His novel Stoner is also published as an NYRB Classic.
Michelle Latiolais is an associate professor of English at the UC Irvine. Her novel, Even Now, won a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California. She has recently published fiction and essays in The Antioch Review, Santa Monica Review, and ZYZZYVA.
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Butcher's Crossing
Written by John Williams
Introduction by Michelle Latiolais
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $14.95
It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to... Read more >
Written by John Williams
Introduction by Michelle Latiolais
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $14.95
It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to... Read more >
Stoner
Written by John Williams
Introduction by John McGahern
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: June 20, 2006
Price: $14.95
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the... Read more >
Written by John Williams
Introduction by John McGahern
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: June 20, 2006
Price: $14.95
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the... Read more >
