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About Alan Williams (novelist)
- Alan Emlyn Williams (born 28 August 1935) is an ex-foreign correspondent, novelist and writer of thrillers.
- He was educated at Stowe, Grenoble and Heidelberg Universities, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1957 with a B.A.
- in modern languages.
- His father was the actor and writer Emlyn Williams.
- Noël Coward was his godfather.
- His younger brother Brook (1938–2005) was also an actor. Williams was briefly married to literary agent Maggie Noach (pronounced "NO-ack") (1949–2006)[1].
- Together they compiled The Dictionary of Disgusting Facts. Journalist Philippa Toomey describes him as a "talented and funny mimic with a gift for words and a stock of tales from the shaggy Express story to the grimmer side of international journalism."He has three children.
- Owen (born 1977) and Laura (born 1980) were the children of with his wife at the time, Antonia (née Simpson).
- He then married Maggie Noach and their daughter Sophie was born in 1989.
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