C. K. Williams

Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won many poetry awards. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the 2003 National Book Award and Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2005. The 2012 film The Color of Time relates aspects of Williams' life using his poetry.

4 November 1936

Born on the same birth day (4 November): Anthony Ruivivar • Bea Binene • Benjamin Robbins Curtis • Daisuke Asakura • Dez Bryant • Giff Vivian • James Dale Ritchie • John Olive (rugby league) • Kenji Osawa • Lena Zavaroni • Makoto Tamada • Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange • Michel Therrien • Tim Breukers • Wayne Static

Born in the same month (November 1936): Al Attles • Charles R. Larson • Crispian Hollis • Dick Cavett • Don Cherry (trumpeter) • Ennio Antonelli • Freddie Garrity • Gail Sheehy • Gwyneth Jones (soprano) • H. B. Bailey • John Moore (Australian politician) • Katsuhisa Hattori • Margaret Boden • Mary Travers • Mikhail Tal • Tara Singh Hayer • Virna Lisi • Yuan T. Lee