Chilton Williamson Jr.

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Chilton Williamson Jr. is an American author. 2015–2019, he was the editor of Chronicles and acting president of the Rockford Institute.[1][2]

He is also known for his novel Mexico Way (2008).[3]

Biography[edit]

Williamson was born in New York City.[3] His father was a former Barnard history professor, Chilton Williamson.[3]

Williamson graduated from Trinity School, and attended Bowdoin College in Maine for a year before transferring to Columbia, graduating in 1969.[3] He majored in European history, and studied American history.[3]

Williamson moved in 1979 to Wyoming,[4][1] where he worked on a drilling rig in the gas fields.[3] He then wrote the book Roughnecking It (1982) and later said "It was the best year of my life, and I made lasting friends."[3] He also lived two years in New Mexico.[4][1]

1976–1989, he was a literary editor of The National Review.[4][1]

In 1989 he started writing for Chronicles, where he wrote the columns "The Hundredth Meridian" and "What's Wrong With the World".[1] Williamson was its senior editor for books since 1989, and became editor of the magazine in June 2015.[3] The book The Hundredth Meridian (2005) is a collection of columns he wrote for Chronicles, in which the Western landscape becomes a character in itself.[3]

Williamson has also written for the publications Catholic World Report, Harper's, The New Republic, Commonweal, The New Leader, The American Spectator, Crisis [5] and The Nation.[3]

In The Conservative Bookshelf, Williamson selected fifty books.[6]

Bibliography[edit]

Williamson has written works of fiction, narrative nonfiction, and nonfiction, some of which are:[4][7][5][8]

  • Saltbound: A Block Island Winter (Methuen, 1980)
  • Roughnecking It: Or, Life in the Overthrust (1982)[3]
  • Trilogy:
    • Desert Light (St. Martin's, 1987) (Novel)[3]
    • The Homestead (1990) (Novel)[3]
    • Jerusalem, Jerusalem! (2017, Chronicles Press) (Novel)[3]
  • Mexico Way (2008)[3]
  • The Education of Héctor Villa
  • After Tocqueville: The Promise and Failure of Democracy (ISI Books, 2012)
  • The Hundredth Meridian (A collection of 22 columns in Chronicles)
  • The Conservatives Bookshelf


References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "About Chilton Williamson Jr.", chiltonwilliamson.com. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Chilton Williamson Jr. Archived 2019-08-16 at the Wayback Machine", chroniclesmagazine.org. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Butchy, Laura (2016-06-24). "Chilton Williamson Jr. '69 Defends Western Culture as Editor, Evokes American West as Writer". Columbia College Today. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  4. ^ a b c d Aurelian Craiutu. "Thinking with Tocqueville: Courage not Ambition, Moderation not Pessimism", Law & Liberty, 30 November 2012. (Craiutu is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington.[1])
  5. ^ a b "Articles by Chilton Williamson Jr. - About Chilton Williamson Jr.", catholicworldreport.com. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  6. ^ Robert C. Cheeks. "An Interview With Chilton Williamson", California Literary Review, 1 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Books by Chilton Williamson Jr.", chiltonwilliamson.com. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  8. ^ "Chilton Williamson Jr. Archived 2019-08-18 at the Wayback Machine", chroniclesmagazine.org. Retrieved 18 August 2019.

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