George G. Williams

George G. Williams (1 May 1902 - 1 December 2000) was professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Rice University. In 1996 he was named as a Rice distinguished alumnus.[1]

Williams graduated from the Rice Institute with a BA in 1923 and subsequently completed his master's degree at the same institution. After an interlude teaching at New York University he returned to Rice, where he spent the rest of his career.[1]

His Creative Writing for Advanced College Classes (1935) remained in print for almost 40 years and his novel The Blind Bull (1952) won first prize from the Texas Institute of Letters. His detailed Guide to Literary London (1973, 406 pages), which described 38 literary walks through the streets of London, was described as ambitious by Humphrey Higgins in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts as to Williams, London was a foreign city.[2]

Rice also wrote for academic journals on his hobby of ornithology and was one of the founders of the Houston Museum of Natural Science for which he was the first president from 1948 to 1950.[1]

Selected publications
  • Creative Writing for Advanced College Classes, 1935.
  • The Blind Bull, 1952.
  • British Poems of the 19th Century, 1957.
  • Geological Factors in the Distribution of American Birds: Evolutionary Aspects of Migration. University of California Press, 1958.
  • Some of My Best Friends are Professors, 1958.
  • A New View of Chaucer, 1965.
  • Guide to Literary London, Batsford, London, 1973. (assisted by Marian and Geoffrey Williams) ISBN 0713401419
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gollark: After I was able to work through git's terrible CLI enough to make that work, and "fixed" some merge conflicts, it somehow compiled still, but upon plugging in the thing, hung things again. I had dmesg open, and apparently it was a page fault somehow in the code assigning names or something?
gollark: Then I noticed that they had merged patches a lot from the repo for a similar wireless chip, so I decided to just try and merge the "kernel 5.10 compatibility" thing from that, which had not made it in yet.
gollark: There was a repo on GitHub for doing that with it, but `insmod`ing it after compiling *somehow* hung my kernel so I had to reboot.
gollark: I mean, possibly. I wanted to get my USB WiFi thing to work in monitor mode for testing for non-evil purposes, but it was just really bad to do so.

References
  1. Rice Says Farewell to Professor and Mentor. Rice University, 13 January 2000. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  2. Review: Guide to Literary London by George G. Williams, Marian Williams, Geoffrey Williams. Review by: Humphrey Higgens in Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol. 122, No. 5209 (December 1973), pp. 38-39.


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