During his enlistment in Calcutta, he wrote pages of a novel, which later became Nothing But the Night, published in 1948 by Swallow Press and later reissued by New York Review Books Classics. He spent two and a half years as a sergeant in India, China and Burma. John Williams attended a local junior college for a year but dropped out after failing freshman English, and then worked in media before joining the war effort in early 1942 by enlisting in the United States Army Air Force. Jewell disappeared in mysterious circumstances when Williams was two years old, and his mother remarried to George Williams, a local shift worker in Wichita Falls.
His grandparents were farmers his father, J.E.Jewell, worked in a feed store. Shortly thereafter, his family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas in pursuit of the Texas oil boom. He was best known for his novels Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and Augustus (1972), which won a U.S. John Edward Williams (Aug– March 3, 1994) was an American author, editor and professor.
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