Philip Lee Williams

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Full Name	Philip Lee Williams
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jan 30, 1950(1950-01-30)
Age	74
Birthplace	Athens
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Philip Lee Williams Biography

Philip Lee Williams is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on January 30, 1950 in Athens, United States. An American novelist, poet, documentary filmmaker, and essayist, he is best known for his novels, A Distant Flame (2004) and Slow Dance in Autumn (1988). The former work received the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction in 2004.

He was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, an elite group that also counts author James Dickey among its ranks.

Philip Lee Williams (born January 30, 1950) is an American novelist, poet, and essayist noted for his explorations of the natural world, intense human relationships, and aging. A native of Athens, Georgia, he grew up in the nearby town of Madison. He is the winner of many literary awards including the 2004 Michael Shaara Prize for his novel A Distant Flame (St. Martin’s), an examination of southerners who were against the Confederacy’s position in the American Civil War. He is also a winner of the Townsend Prize for Fiction for his novel The Heart of a Distant Forest, and has been named Georgia Author of the Year four times. In 2007, he was recipient of a Georgia Governor’s Award in the Humanities. Williams’s The Divine Comics: A Vaudeville Show in Three Acts, a 1000-page re-imagining of Dante’s magnum opus, was published in the fall of 2011. His latest novel, Emerson’s Brother, came out in May 2012 from Mercer University Press

Williams began his creative work by composing music and writing poetry while still in his teens. He graduated from Morgan County High School in 1968 and from the University of Georgia in 1972 with a degree in journalism and minors in history and English. In 1972, he married Linda Rowley. They have two children, Brandon and Megan.

He and his two siblings were born in Athens, Georgia to Ruth Sisk Williams and Marshall Woodson Williams. In 1972, he married Linda Rowley, with whom he subsequently had two children.

Philip Lee Williams Net Worth

Philip Lee Williams is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Philip Lee Williams 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He composed music and wrote poetry in his teens. He later majored in journalism at the University of Georgia, graduating in 1972.

He published seventeen books, including twelve novels, between 1988 and 2012. He also earned accolades as a journalist for the Athens Daily News, The Madisonian, and other Georgia publications.

Philip Lee Williams was born in 1950, one of three children of Ruth Sisk Williams (1924–2008) and Marshall Woodson Williams (1922– ). He, his parents, and his older brother John Mark Williams (b. 1948), moved to Madison, Georgia, in 1953, where Marshall Williams had accepted a job as a chemistry teacher at Morgan County High School. Williams also has a sister, Laura Jane Williams, born in 1959.

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Williams is also a documentary film-maker whose films have won awards from the New York Film Festival, the Columbus (Ohio) Film Festival, and the Telly Awards. Among the documentaries he has written and co-produced are Hugh Kenner: A Modern Master and Eugene Odum: An Ecologist’s Life. His work has also appeared in numerous anthologies.

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Philip Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Philip Lee Williams celebrates birthday on January 30 of every year.

Williams’s second novel, All the Western Stars (Peachtree Publisher, 1988) is the story of two old men who run away from a rest home to become cowboys on a ranch in Texas. This book also came out in an edition from Ballantine and was translated into German. Richard Zanuck and David Brown optioned the book for MGM as a film project, though it was never put into production there. (MGM hired Williams to write one version of the screenplay.) Instead, the project was picked up by Rysher Entertainment, where it was greenlighted, with Jack Lemmon and James Garner to star. When Lemmon withdrew from the project, the film was shelved and has yet to be made.