The novelist Thomas Williams died at the age of 63. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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Twentieth-century American novelist who is best known for The Hair of Harold Roux and Moon Pinnace. The former work won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
He was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota. His daughter, Ann Joslin Williams, also had a career as a novelist.