![]() It was a great success, and Williams spent the remainder of his professional career as an author, primarily of novels, with several screenplays also to his credit. He and his wife then relocated to San Francisco, where he worked for Mackay Radio company until the publication of his first novel, Hill Girl, in 1951. He also worked as a wireless operator, radar technician and radio service engineer as a civilian with the U.S. Having trained as a radioman during his seafaring career, Williams worked as an electronics inspector, first for RCA in Galveston, Texas, and later at Puget Sound Navy Yard in Washington State. He served for ten years before quitting to marry Lasca Foster. ![]() After attending school through tenth grade, in 1929 he enlisted with the US Merchant Marine. Williams was born in the central Texas town of San Angelo. A dozen of his books have been adapted for movies, most popularly Dead Calm and The Hot Spot. His 1951 debut, the paperback novel Hill Girl, sold more than a million copies. ![]() ![]() He is regarded by some critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. Williams (Aug– April 5, 1975) was an American author of crime fiction. ![]()
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