William Carlos WILLIAMS

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was an American poet, physician, novelist, essayist, and playwright closely associated with modernism and imagism, known for his innovative style emphasizing everyday American life and the phrase 'No ideas but in things.'[1][3] Born in Rutherford, New Jersey, to an English father and Puerto Rican mother, he balanced a medical practice there with a prolific literary career, publishing his first book *Poems* in 1909 and gaining influence among later poets like the Beats.[2][3][5] He received the Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1963 for *Pictures from Brueghel, and Other Poems*.[4]