Paterson Poet William Carlos Williams

New Jersey is home to many great writers, including poet William Carlos Williams, who immortalized the industrial city of Paterson in an epic poem in five volumes published between 1946 and 1958. The son of an English father and Puerto Rican mother, Williams wrote about the tensions between these two cultures, as well as the daily world around him. He was also a practicing pediatrician in his hometown of Rutherford.

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