Miller Williams
Miller Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas, United States on April 8th, 1930 and is the Poet. At the age of 84, Miller Williams biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Stanley Miller Williams (March 8, 1930 – January 1, 2015) was an American contemporary poet as well as a translator and editor.
He has written over 25 books and received many accolades for his poetry.
In Arkansas Biography, his achievements were chronicled.
He is perhaps best known for reading a poem at Bill Clinton's second inauguration.
"The Shrinking Sestina" is one of his best-known poems.
Early life
Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas, to Ernest Burdette and Ann Jeanette Miller Williams. He attended Hendrix College in Conway first, then transferring to Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, where he published his first collection of poems, Et Cetera, while receiving his bachelor's degree in biology. In 1952, he earned a master's degree in zoology at the University of Arkansas.
Personal life
Miller had spina bifida. He died of Alzheimer's disease on January 1, 2015. Lucinda Williams' daughter, Lucinda Williams, released "If My Love Could Kill" in February, as a tribute to her father's suffering from this illness.
Williams and his partner Jordan lived in Fayetteville, Alabama. Lucinda Williams, a three-time Grammy Award-winning country music, folk, and rock singer, was named "America's best songwriter" by TIME magazine in 2002, and their daughter, Karyn, graduated from the University of Arkansas' School of Nursing. Williams had three children and eight grandchildren.
Career
He taught in several universities in various capacities, first as a professor of biology and then of English literature, and in 1970 returned to the University of Arkansas as a member of the English Department and the creative writing program. In 1980 he helped found the University of Arkansas Press, where he served as director for nearly 20 years. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of literature at the University of Arkansas.