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Gordon M. Williams (20 June 1934 – 20 August 2017) was a Scottish author. Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, he moved to London to work as a journalist. He wrote for television and was the author of more than 20 novels, including From Scenes Like These (1968), shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1969, Walk Don't Walk (1972) and Big Morning Blues (1974). Other novels include The Camp (1966), The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1967) and The Upper Pleasure Garden (1970). He was a ghostwriter for the autobiographies of association footballers Bobby Moore, Terry Venables and manager Tommy Docherty.

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  • غوردون وليامز (كاتب خيال علمي) (ar)
  • Gordon Williams (writer) (en)
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  • غوردون وليامز (بالإنجليزية: Gordon Williams)‏ هو كاتب خيال علمي بريطاني، ولد في 1934 في ‏ في المملكة المتحدة، وتوفي في 20 أغسطس 2017. (ar)
  • Gordon M. Williams (20 June 1934 – 20 August 2017) was a Scottish author. Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, he moved to London to work as a journalist. He wrote for television and was the author of more than 20 novels, including From Scenes Like These (1968), shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1969, Walk Don't Walk (1972) and Big Morning Blues (1974). Other novels include The Camp (1966), The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1967) and The Upper Pleasure Garden (1970). He was a ghostwriter for the autobiographies of association footballers Bobby Moore, Terry Venables and manager Tommy Docherty. (en)
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  • Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland (en)
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  • Gordon Maclean Williams (en)
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  • غوردون وليامز (بالإنجليزية: Gordon Williams)‏ هو كاتب خيال علمي بريطاني، ولد في 1934 في ‏ في المملكة المتحدة، وتوفي في 20 أغسطس 2017. (ar)
  • Gordon M. Williams (20 June 1934 – 20 August 2017) was a Scottish author. Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, he moved to London to work as a journalist. He wrote for television and was the author of more than 20 novels, including From Scenes Like These (1968), shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1969, Walk Don't Walk (1972) and Big Morning Blues (1974). Other novels include The Camp (1966), The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1967) and The Upper Pleasure Garden (1970). He was a ghostwriter for the autobiographies of association footballers Bobby Moore, Terry Venables and manager Tommy Docherty. Williams' National Service with the RAF in Germany informed his second published novel, The Camp. In 1971, his novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm was controversially filmed as Straw Dogs. Sam Peckinpah's cinematic treatment marked a watershed in the depiction of sexual violence in the cinema though the most controversial scenes are absent from the book. Other film work includes The Man Who Had Power Over Women, from his own novel, and Tree of Hands, as scriptwriter from a Ruth Rendell novel. Williams also wrote the book of Ridley Scott's film The Duellists. In 1976 film producer Harry Saltzman employed Williams to rewrite the script for The Micronauts. Although the film was never made, Williams' novelisation was published in 1977; he subsequently wrote two sequels. While working as commercial manager of association football club Chelsea, he renewed his collaboration with Venables, resulting in four co-written novels. From the novels grew the 1978 TV series Hazell, which the pair co-wrote under the shared pseudonym P. B. Yuill. Under the name Jack Lang, Williams also wrote paperbacks "for £300 a time". Williams declined director Bill Forsyth's invitation to write the script for the 1981 film Gregory's Girl. He died on 20 August 2017 at the age of 83. (en)
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