William Carlos Williams was born on

September 17, 1883, in Rutherford, New

Jersey, United States of America. He

died on March 4, 1963, in the same, small

town. He was an American poet, playwright,

essayist, novelist, medical doctor, and

thinker. Williams was a founding father of

the modernist and avant-guard movements in

American art and literature. His work was

inspired by the Whitman, Emerson, and

Thoreau, and inspired Ginsberg, Creely, and

Olson.