True Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American illustrator
Date of Birth: 22-Mar-1839
Place of Birth: Allegany County, New York, United States
Date of Death: 23-Nov-1897
Profession: illustrator
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About True Williams
- Truman W.
- "True" Williams (March 22, 1839 – November 23, 1897) was an American artist known as the most prolific illustrator to Mark Twain's books and novels.
- He illustrated the first edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and was thus the first to visually portray such characters as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
- He was also sole illustrator of Twain's Sketches, New and Old and primary illustrator of Roughing It and The Innocents Abroad.
- Working with a number of publishers he also illustrated works by writers Bill Nye, George W.
- Peck, Joaquin Miller, and others.
- He was also a notorious drunk, which slowed his work and made him unreliable.
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