Biography raymond williams

Welsh scholar, critic and Marxist (1921–1988)

For other persons named Raymond Williams, see Ray Williams (disambiguation).

Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) 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.

Biography raymond williams jr

His work laid foundations for the field of cultural studies and cultural materialism.

Life

Early life

Born in Pandy,^[3][4] just north of Llanfihangel Crucorney, near Abergavenny, Wales, Williams was the son of a railway worker in a village where all of the railwaymen voted Labour, while the local small farmers mostly voted Liberal.

It was not a Welsh-speaking area: he described it as "Anglicised in the 1840s". There w