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Jan 30, 1950 Athens, Georgia, United States 74 years old
American writer
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About Philip Lee Williams
- 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
