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William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford,New Jersey on September 17,1883
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William had a very close friend named Edgar that seemed like his brother.
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when William was 14 Wiliam was sent to Paris, France to get a better education. He came back to America two years later.
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While William was growing up his family taught him art and liturature.
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William's father infulenced him by reading his dad Shakespeare poems. His friend Ezra also influenced him by telling him to write.
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William Carlos went to a medical college thats called University of Pennsylvania.
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Sometimes William puts his life stories in his poems.
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He was a pediatrician and a general practitioner of medicine and he had a medical degree from the university of Pennsylvania.
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William met Ezra Pound at the University of Pennsylvannia. Ezra told William to keep on writing poetry.
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William Carlos published his first book, even though he only sold four copies.
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William got married to a woman named Florence.
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His second son, Paul Herman Williams, was born on September 13
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William was reconized in some magazines.
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William Williams met Robert McAlmon in July 1920. McAlmon thought that they should publish their own poetry magazine.
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Later William went to the United States giving reading poetry to some people.
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William Williams recorded one of the poems he made at the Recording Laboratory,Washington D.C.,and the library of congress and it is used by permission by the Library of Congress.
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Williams won the first National Book Award for Poetry.
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William Carlos recieves the Levinson price of poetry
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William celebrated his 50th anniversary with Florence.
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Williams died on March 4 in Columbia,Kentucky, at the age of seventy-nine at his home in Rutherford.In February 1948, at age 65, while leaving the hospital at 1:30 a.m., Williams suffered a heart attack.
