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- Williams, John A.,
Entry Personal Name
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
- control field: 153920
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
- control field: DLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
- control field: 20260424160002.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS
- fixed length control field: 800423n| azannaabn |a aaa
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
- LC control number: n 50018058
- Canceled/invalid LC control number: n 2005090097
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
- System control number: (OCoLC)oca00053503
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
- Original cataloging agency: DLC
- Language of cataloging: eng
- Description conventions: rda
- Transcribing agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: OCoLC
- Modifying agency: Uk
- Modifying agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: DHU-MS
- Modifying agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: UkOxU
- Modifying agency: OCoLC
046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES
- Birth date: 1925-12-05
- Death date: 2015-07-03
- Source of date scheme: edtf
053 #0 - LC CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
- Classification number element--single number or beginning number of span: PS3573.I4495
100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME
- Personal name: Williams, John A.,
- Dates associated with a name: 1925-2015
370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE
- Place of birth: Jackson (Miss.)
- Place of death: Paramus (N.J.)
- Associated country: United States
- Place of residence/headquarters: Syracuse (N.Y.)
- Place of residence/headquarters: New York (N.Y.)
- Place of residence/headquarters: Teaneck (N.J.)
- Source of term: naf
373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP
- Associated group: Rutgers--Newark
- Source of term: naf
- Start period: 1979
- End period: 1994
373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP
- Associated group: United States. Navy
- Associated group: Syracuse University
- Associated group: City University of New York. City College
- Source of term: naf
374 ## - OCCUPATION
- Occupation: Novelists
- Occupation: Journalists
- Occupation: College teachers
- Source of term: lcsh
377 ## - ASSOCIATED LANGUAGE
- Language code: eng
378 ## - FULLER FORM OF PERSONAL NAME
- Fuller form of personal name: John Alfred
400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME
- Personal name: Williams, John A.
- Fuller form of name: (John Alfred),
- Dates associated with a name: 1925-2015
400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME
- Personal name: Williams, John Alfred,
- Dates associated with a name: 1925-2015
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Night song, 1961.
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: !Click song, 1982:
- Information found: t.p. (John A. Williams)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: The man who cried I am, 2004:
- Information found: t.p. (John A. Williams)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: The writers dir. 1994-96
- Information found: (John Alfred Williams, born 1925; American; Paul Robeson Professor of English at Rutgers Univ.; lists publications)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: African American National Biography, accessed September 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:
- Information found: (Williams, John Alfred; fiction writer, print journalist, educator; born 05 December 1925 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States; entered the U.S. Navy (1943); bachelor's degree in Journalism and English, Syracuse University (1950); publicity director for Comet Press Books; editor of Negro Market Newsletter; European correspondent for Ebony and Jet magazines; his first novel, The Angry Ones (1960) was selected to receive the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; he remains the only candidate to ever have had the prize retracted; lecturer in writing at City College of the City University of New York, he has held teaching positions at more than a dozen colleges and universities)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: New York times WWW site, viewed July 7, 2015
- Information found: (in obituary published July 6: John A. Williams; b. John Alfred Williams, Dec. 5, 1925, Jackson, Miss.; grew up in Syracuse; moved to New York City in 1955; d. Friday [July 3, 2015], Paramus, N.J., aged 89; lived in Teaneck, N.J.; writer whose exploration of black identity, notably in the 1967 novel The man who cried I am, established him as one of the bright lights in what he liked to call "the second Harlem Renaissance," and who caused a furor with an unflattering biography of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; taught at several colleges and universities, most recently Rutgers in Newark from 1979 until his retirement in 1994)
