Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams (1921-1988) was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist, and critic who played a pivotal role in the New Left and founded cultural studies through concepts like cultural materialism and 'structure of feeling.'[1][2] Born to working-class parents in a Welsh border village, he studied at Cambridge, served in World War II, and became a professor there, authoring influential works such as Culture and Society (1958) and Border Country (1960).[2][3]