Major works:
Butcher’s Crossing | Stoner | Augustus
“John Williams’s Stoner is something rarer than a great novel—it is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, that it takes your breath away.”—Morris Dickstein, The New York Times
“[T]here is something in even those first paragraphs [of Stoner], an un-show-off-y assurance in the prose, like the soft opening notes of a virtuoso or the first casual gestures of a master artist, that tells us we are in the presence not just of a great writer but of something more—someone who knows life, who maybe even understands it. It’s the same thing I sense in reading James Salter: the presence of wisdom. And wisdom is, of course, perennially out of style.”—Tim Kreider, The New Yorker
Books
