Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Williams, Jonathan
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Williams, Jonathan, 1929-
Other form(s) of name
- Williams, Jonathan Chamberlain
- Jonathan Williams
- Jonathan Chamberlain Williams
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1929-
History
Jonathan Williams is a poet, publisher, designer, photographer and essayist, born in Asheville, North Carolina. After studies at Princeton and painting at the Phillips Memorial Gallery, he returned to Asheville to study photography at Black Mountain College. After his return to North Carolina, he became associated with the Black Mountain group of poets and began a publishing venture, the Jargon Society Books. Williams visited Gethsemani Abbey in January of 1967 with Guy Davenport and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. (Source: «The Courage for Truth», p. 284.)