Prolific Mississippi-born writer academic and journalist, who lived & worked primarily in the u.s. northeast. American writer, academic, and journalist. He is best known for his explorations of black identity in his 1967 best-selling novel The Man Who Cried I Am
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African Americans, Fiction, Fiction, general, African americans, fiction, Race relations, African American authors, African Americans in literature, Racism, African american authors, Americans, Biography, Black History, Description and travel, Fiction, gay, Fiction, historical, general, Germany, fiction, History, Literature, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, 22 cm, Academic writing, Addresses, essays, lectures, Africa, history, African American, African American ParticipationPlaces
United States, Europe, Africa, Amsterdam (Netherland), Amsterdam (Netherlands), New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), Paris (France)People
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), Richard Wright (1908-1960), Chester B. Himes (1909-1984), John Alfred Williams (1925-), Richard PryorID Numbers
- OLID: OL20756A
- ISNI: 0000000081606231
- Integrated Authority File (GND): 118807463
- Library of Congress Names: n50018058
- LibraryThing: williamsjohna-2
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): SBLV000486
- VIAF: 84582743
- Wikidata: Q661925
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q661925
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- John A. Williams
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