The Hair of Harold Roux (52 page)

Thomas Williams was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1926. He attended the University of New Hampshire and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and returned to the University of New Hampshire to teach for many years. His short stories appeared frequently in
Esquire
, the
New Yorker
, the
Saturday Evening Post
, and elsewhere. Williams’s first novel,
Ceremony of Love
, was published in 1955, and he went on to publish seven more novels and a collection of short stories. Another book of his stories,
Leah, New Hampshire
, was published posthumously. His work was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and twice nominated for the National Book Award, which he won in 1975 for
The Hair of Harold Roux
.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Ceremony of Love
Town Burning
The Night of Trees
A High New House
Whipple’s Castle
Tsuga’s Children
The Followed Man
The Moon Pinnace
Leah, New Hampshire

Copyright © 1966, 1970, 1974 by the estate of Thomas Williams
Introduction copyright © 2011 by Andres Dubus III
Afterword copyright © 2011 by Ann Joslin Williams

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First published in 1974 by Random House, Inc.

Published by Bloomsbury USA, New York

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ISBN: 978-1-60819-583-1 (paperback)

First published by Bloomsbury USA in 2011
This e-book edition published in 2011

E-book ISBN: 978-1-60819-728-6

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