Williams was not an unknown: his epistolatory novel Augustus won a National Book Award. I read Stoner in the late 1970s, before it went out of print for some ti

Williams was not an unknown: his epistolatory novel Augustus won a National Book Award. I read Stoner in the late 1970s, before it went out of print for some time. I found the novel's revival interesting. For a negative view, I think that Elaine Showalter mostly plays fair in https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/classic-stoner-not-so-fast/2015/11/02/9f0ed5aa-7db3-11e5-b575-d8dcfedb4ea1_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/classic-s... .