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John A. Williams

1925–2015

United States

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John Alfred Williams (December 5, 1925 – July 3, 2015) was an American author, journalist, and academic. His novel The Man Who Cried I Am was a bestseller in 1967. Also a poet, he won an American Book Award for his 1998 collection Safari West.

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