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Christian Williams

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In 15 years at The Washington Post Christian Williams served as arts editor of the Style Section and reporter on the investigative unit. In 1987 he moved to Los Angeles to write and produce television programs from "Hill Street Blues" to "Six Feet Under." He is the author of "Rarotonga," a novel (2019); "Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way," a biography of Ted Turner (Times Books, 1981); "Alone Together: Sailing Solo to Hawaii and Beyond" (East Wind Press, 2016) and "Philosophy of Sailing" (2018). Williams has four children and lives in Pacific Palisades, CA, with his spouse, Tracy Olmstead Williams. ...more

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Well, I'm the author, so the five stars are only a convention. Autobiography is a strange bird, but what we can say best about it is that it's from the horse's mouth, so to speak. It can be enlightening to follow the 82 years of this tale, if for no ...more
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Well, I'm the author, so the five stars are only a convention. Autobiography is a strange bird, but what we can say best about it is that it's from the horse's mouth, so to speak. It can be enlightening to follow the 82 years of this tale, if for no ...more
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Not a dictionary but a collection of short essays on the topics Voltaire was consumed by--notably the Church, superstition, and the vagaries of the grand and powerful. Enormously entertaining. Obviously influenced by Montaigne, but funnier, and if th ...more
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“Every new dawn is only a probability become fact.”
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