William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was born in 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey, to an English father and a Puerto Rican mother. He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he met Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle, then practised for more than forty years as a paediatrician and general practitioner in his native town, where he delivered nearly two thousand babies. He jotted down his poems on his prescription pads, between visits. Author of a long poem in five books devoted to a neighbouring city, he received the Pulitzer Prize for a 1962 collection, awarded to him after his death, which occurred in Rutherford in 1963.

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