Augustus -- John Williams

WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD <br> By the Author of <i>Stoner</i> <p/> In <i>Augustus</i>, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in <i>Butcher's Crossing</i> and the campus novel in <i>Stoner</i>. <i>Augustus</i> is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master.<br><br><b>Author:</b> John Williams<br><b>Publisher:</b> New York Review of Books<br><b>Published:</b> 08/19/2014<br><b>Pages:</b> 336<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.80lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781590178218<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>John Williams </b>(1922-1994) was born and raised in northeast Texas. Despite a talent for writing and acting, Williams flunked out of a local junior college after his first year. He reluctantly joined the war effort, enlisting in the Army Air Corps, and managed to write a draft of his first novel while there. Once home, Williams found a small publisher for the novel and enrolled at the University of Denver, where he was eventually to receive both his B.A. and M.A., and where he was to return as an instructor in 1954. <p/> He remained on the staff of the creative writing program at th