Philip Lee Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Philip Lee Williams

American writer

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1950

Place of Birth: Athens, Georgia, United States

Profession: poet, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Philip Lee Williams (born January 30, 1950) is an American novelist, poet, and essayist noted for his explorations of the natural world, intense human relationships, and aging.
A native of Athens, Georgia, he grew up in the nearby town of Madison.
He is the winner of many literary awards including the 2004 Michael Shaara Prize for his novel A Distant Flame (St.
Martin’s), an examination of southerners who were against the Confederacy’s position in the American Civil War.
He is also a winner of the Townsend Prize for Fiction for his novel The Heart of a Distant Forest, and has been named Georgia Author of the Year four times.
In 2007, he was recipient of a Georgia Governor’s Award in the Humanities.
Williams's The Divine Comics: A Vaudeville Show in Three Acts, a 1000-page re-imagining of Dante's magnum opus, was published in the fall of 2011.
His latest novel, Emerson's Brother, came out in May 2012 from Mercer University Press