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John Williams was born and grew up in Cardiff. After a variety of jobs which included working in an anarchist printshop and writing for a punk fanzine, he moved to London where he worked as a journalist. His career as a novelist and editor began when still living in London but, as he explains in his introduction to the short story anthology, Wales Half Welsh, his ‘Welshness started creeping up’ on him and he made the decision to return to Cardiff. He currently lives in Cardiff with his writer/musician wife, Charlotte Greig, and their children.
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Brockway, Anthony, ‘An Interview with John Williams’, The Wolfman Knew My Father. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/elizabeth.ercocklly/johnw.htm.
Williams, John, ‘Introduction’, in Wales Half Welsh, ed. by John Williams (London: Bloomsbury, 2004), pp. 1–12.
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Phelps, C. (2020). John Williams (b. 1961), 1999: Five Pubs, Two Bars and a Nightclub. In: Miskimmin, E. (eds) 100 British Crime Writers. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31902-9_91
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