David Williams (crime writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

David Williams (crime writer)

advertising executive and crime writer

Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1926

Place of Birth: Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 26-Sep-2003

Profession: writer

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About David Williams (crime writer)

  • David Stuart Williams (8 June 1926 – 26 September 2003) was an advertising executive who became a crime writer after suffering a stroke. Williams was born in Bridgend in Wales and studied at the Hereford Cathedral School and St John's College, Oxford, where he read Modern History.
  • His university studies were interrupted by World War II when Williams spent three years as an officer in the Royal Navy.He started in advertising as a medical copywriter, rising through the ranks to head David Williams and Ketchum, regarded as one of the largest and most successful advertising agencies in the country.
  • He suffered a severe stroke in 1977 and whilst he eventually made a more or less complete recovery, he suffered partial paralysis and impaired speech for a time and realised that he would not be able to return to the stresses of life in the advertising industry.
  • He had written crime fiction in his spare time, with Unholy Writ being written before his stroke in 1976.
  • He turned from advertising to writing "whodunnits": he wrote 23 novels in all, most featuring Mark Treasure, graduate of Jesus College, Oxford and vice-chairman of a merchant bank, and his successful actress wife Molly.
  • A second series of books featured Chief Inspector Merlin Parry of the South Wales Constabulary, together with Sergeant Gomer Lloyd.
  • His books were twice shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award and he was elected as a member of the Detection Club in 1988.
  • He also was a churchwarden of St Mary Aldermary and a governor of Pusey House, Oxford.His ashes are interred in the churchyard of St Mary, Thorpe, Surrey - the nearest Anglo-Catholic parish church to his home, where he had been a Cantor and regular worshipper for many years.

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