William Carlos Williams

Poet / Physician

William Carlos Williams was a local doctor in New Jersey throughout his life while also becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Williams was considered a groundbreaker: he wrote poems about the everyday lives of working people, an unusual notion for the time, and often tried unusual meters and styles. In later years these traits endeared him to Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg. Williams also wrote plays, novels, and essays. He was given a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his 1962 collection Pictures from Brueghel, and other Poems.

Mr. Williams appears with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in our loop on Doctors Who Write.