Bill Crider:
<<This has been a mystery to me for years. I can't
understand why Williams isn't more highly regarded. Didn't
John D. MacDonald say something like, "he was the best of us
at Gold Medal" or words to that effect?>>
I don't think a writer like Williams, who is neither flashy
nor weird, has much of a chance of rediscovery by today's
public. I find his best novels unforgettable, deep, very
carefully developed, with big crescendos of well-prepared
action. I don't think MacDonald was wrong, though there were
many good writers at Gold Medal.
The more relevant question may be: Are *any* Gold Medal
writers remembered today?
The other day my wife reminded me that all those yellow(ed)
paperbacks that I cherish *are last-century stuff*. How's
that for a well-prepared spousal stabbing? Needless to say, a
dead calm followed. I had it coming for suggesting that
certain shelves be cleared of Anais Nin, Simone de Beauvoir
and, first of all and Salvation Army-bound, Lillian Hellman's
books of memoirs. Hellman stays, the Gold Medals stay. I
never thought I would owe anything to Hell Lilly.
Regards,
MrT
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