← John WilliamsAugustusby John WilliamsHistorical novel depicting the life and reign of Augustus CaesarFind on Amazon↗About the authorJohn WilliamsJohn Williams wrote Stoner, a quiet masterpiece about an unremarkable academic life that was rediscovered decades after publication and recognized as one of the most moving American novels about the life of the mind.More by John WilliamsStonerQuiet novel of an English professor's unfulfilled marriage and life choices→Butcher's CrossingWestern novel about buffalo hunters in 1870s Kansas frontier→Nothing But the Night→The Broken Landscape→