William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) is recognized as one of America's great modernist writers, alongside T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, and Hart Crane. As a prolific writer and life-long practicing physician, his works have been widely anthologized. For his contribution to American letters he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the Gold Medal for Poetry of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and other awards.