Paul O. Williams
Paul O. Williams | |
|---|---|
 Williams reading from his book of cat haiku at the Yuki Teikei Holiday Party in 2006 | |
| Born | January 17, 1935 |
| Died | June 2, 2009 (aged 74) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Notable awards | John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (1983) |
Paul O. Williams (January 17, 1935 – June 2, 2009) was an American
John W. Campbell Award and the Museum of Haiku Literature Award; and was professor emeritus of English at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois and president of the Haiku Society of America
.
Life
His most notable science fiction works are a series of novels, the Pelbar Cycle, set in
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction in 1983.[1] Williams was a professor at Duke University and Principia College, and a longtime contributor to The Christian Science Monitor.[2]
He is also known as a writer of
Tonto, in the Lone Ranger radio and television series. In 2001, his best essays were collected in The Nick of Time: Essays on Haiku Aesthetics, edited by Lee Gurga and Michael Dylan Welch. Williams was the president of the Haiku Society of America (1999) and vice president of the Tanka Society of America (2000). In 1989 he won the Museum of Haiku Literature Award[3] from the Haiku Society of America with this poem written for Nick Virgilio
shortly after Nick's death:
gone from the woods
the bird I knew
by song alone
Williams died from an aortic dissection on June 2, 2009.[4]
Selected works
- The Pelbar Cycle
- The Breaking of Northwall (1981)
- The Ends of the Circle (1981)
- The Dome in the Forest (1981)
- The Fall of the Shell (1982)
- An Ambush of Shadows (1983)
- Song of the Axe (1984)
- The Sword of Forbearance (1985)
- (The Pelbar Cycle was republished in 2005–2006 by the University of Nebraska Press.)
- Gorboduc Series
- The Gifts of the Gorboduc Vandal (1989)
- The Man from Far Cloud (2004)
- Haiku, senryū, tanka, and other poetry books
- The Edge of the Woods: 55 Haiku (1968; haiku)
- Tracks on the River (1982; haiku)
- Growing in the Rain (1991; longer poetry)
- Outside Robins Sing: Selected Haiku July 1999. Brooks Books 56 pages. ISBN 0-913719-98-6
- The Nick of Time: Essays on Haiku Aesthetics by Paul O. Williams, Press Here, 2001, ISBN 1-878798-23-5(winner of the Haiku Society of America's 2002 Merit Award for Best Criticism)
- These Audacious Maples (2007; tanka)
- The Day of Strawberries, edited by Paul O. Williams (San Francisco: Two Autumns Press, 2004) — the companion chapbook to the Haiku Poets of Northern California’s fifteenth annual Two Autumns poetry reading series
- Paul's Shiki Monthly Kukai Entries
- Other published works
- Frederick Oakes Sylvester: the artist's encounter with Elsah (1986, illustrated biography of Frederick Oakes Sylvester)
References
- ^ "Isaac Asimov Novel Wins a Hugo Award". The New York Times. Associated Press. September 6, 1983. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
- ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
- ^ "Museum of Haiku Literature Award".
- ^ "Obituary, Paul O. Williams". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. June 12, 2009. Archived from the original on June 29, 2009.
