John H. Williams

Trite but True

Memoirs in the Form of Essays

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Who really knows who you are? Your spouse? Your closest friend? People don't generally reveal who they really are for various reasons, but this book tries to tell who John H. Williams is, mainly so his grandchildren and great-grandchildren will have the detailed account he would have liked his own ancestors to have left.Trite but True is a memoir in the form of eighty personal essays inspired by the sixteenth-century French author Michel de Montaigne. Spoiler Alert! They lack both the genius and length of Montaigne's essays, but brevity is perhaps their saving grace. Each is but two pages long and reflects on matters that have either shaped t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-64237-433-9
EAN: 9781642374339
Produktnummer: 30329642
Verlag: Gatekeeper Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.8 cm 501 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
Gewicht: 501

Über den Autor

John H. Williams, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison), is a retired professor of French language and literature. A college valedictorian, Woodrow Wilson Fellow, United States Steel Fellow, and Fulbright Advanced Teaching Fellow, he taught at three public universities and three private universities over a span of twenty-four years. The author of scholarly articles on French literature and French pedagogy, he retired at forty-eight to devote himself to volunteer work and his many personal interests.Williams has been married for forty-nine years and has two sons and two grandchildren. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, now living in McKinney, Texas, he is active at church as a Bible teacher and has also taught ESL at the local public library. He enjoys reading non-fiction, improving his Spanish, playing chess, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. In this book of personal essays, he attempts to channel Michel de Montaigne, his favorite French author, and to share his reflections not only on his own life but on a wide range of relevant topics.