(1921-1988) Welsh writer, professor of drama and cultural critic, long famous for his incisive studies of the interconnections between literature and society like Culture and Society (1958) and The Country and the City (1973). Of sf interest is The Volunteers (1978), a tale set in the late 1980s when political conflict in the UK has come to a violent head. Further nonfiction works include Keywords (1976) and the sf-relevant study George Orwell (1971; exp vt Orwell 1984). [JC/DRL]

see also: Proto SF.

Raymond Henry Williams

born 1921

died 1988

works

• The Volunteers (London: Eyre Methuen, 1978) [hb/]
• The Fight for Manod (London: Chatto and Windus, 1979) [hb/]

nonfiction (selected)

• George Orwell (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1971) [nonfiction: George Orwell: hb/]
  • Orwell (London: Fontana, 1984) [nonfiction: exp vt of the above: pb/]

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