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Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams, Welsh author and academic (d. 1988)

Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contributed to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books were sold in UK editions alone, and there are many translations available. His work laid foundations for the field of cultural studies and cultural materialism.

31 August 1921

Born on the same birth date (31 August 1921): Otis G. Pike

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