| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Charles Williams (U.S. author) ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Charles Williams (U.S. author)
Charles Williams (August 13, 1909 – ca. April 7, 1975) was an American author of crime fiction. He is regarded by some critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1951 debut, the pulp paperback novel ''Hill Girl'', sold more than a million copies. A dozen of his books have been adapted for movies, most popularly ''Dead Calm''.
==Life==
Williams was born in the central Texas town of San Angelo. After attending school through tenth grade, during 1929 he enlisted with the US Merchant Marine. He served for ten years before quitting to marry Lasca Foster. Having trained as a radioman during his seafaring career, Williams worked as an electronics inspector, first for RCA in Galveston, Texas, later at Puget Sound Navy Yard in Washington State through the end of World War II. He and his wife then relocated to San Francisco, where he worked for Mackay Radio company until the publication of his first novel, ''Hill Girl'', during 1951. It was a great success, and Williams spent the remainder of his professional career as an author, primarily of novels, with several screenplays also to his credit. The couple changed residences frequently and apparently spent considerable time in France, where Williams's work has an excellent reputation. After the death of his wife from cancer during 1972, Williams purchased property on the California-Oregon border where he lived alone for a time in a trailer. Ultimately relocating to Los Angeles, Williams committed suicide in his apartment in the Van Nuys neighborhood during early April 1975. He was survived by a daughter, Alison.〔General biographical data: Gorman (1998a), Lynskey (2004). Date of death: Lynskey (2004)—"His body was recovered in his apartment on April 7, 1975."〕 Many sources continue to repeat the false rumor that Williams died by drowning in the Gulf of Mexico or in France.
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Charles Williams (U.S. author)」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|