4 Added to Writers Hall of Fame - Athens-Banner Herald, March 25, 2010

Press Kit for The Campfire Boys

Writer cares more about quality than money - Athens-Banner Herald, March 08, 2009

Assistant dean to read selections from newly published book of poetry - The Red & Black, March 05, 2009

Questions and answers for Philip Lee Williams about his new book In the Morning: Reflections from First Light

Philip Lee Williams' A Distant Flame named one of Top 25 Books All Georgians Should Read

Philip Lee Williams Wins National Honor for Civil War Novel A Distant Flame

Feature Story - New Civil War Novel One of First to Take In-depth Look at the Campaign - and Home Front - in Georgia

Questions and Answers for Author Philip Lee Williams

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In the Morning: Reflections from First Light book cover

A Distant Flame book cover

Photograph of Philip Lee Williams

Philip Lee Williams’s latest book is the massive novel The Divine Comics: A Vaudeville Show in Three Acts, published in late 2011. His new novel, Emerson’s Brother, will be published in late spring 2012.

In 2011, the University of Georgia Press published a new edition of Williams's award-winning Civil War novel, A Distant Flame. This novel originally published by St. Martin's in 2004, was winner of the Michael Shaara Prize, given to the best single Civil War novel published in the United States the previous year.

Williams’s much-praised book-length poem, The Flower Seeker: An Epic Poem of William Bartram, came out in the fall of 2010. It was named Book of the Year by the national literary journal Books and Culture and won Williams his fourth Georgia Author of the Year Award.

All of Williams’s books are for sale at numerous online outlets and at many bookstores around the world. In addition, his works are in hundreds of libraries around the globe.

Symphony No. 17: Tenebrae

This symphony is subtitled "Tenebrae," which is a religious service in the Christian church but literally means "shadows" or "darkness" in Latin. It is a quiet, contemplative symphony, a single movement for full orchestra. (29'48")

Symphony No. 18: For the Civil Rights Martyrs

This work is subtitled "For the Civil Rights Martyrs" and is in memory of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 while working for Civil Rights. It is also in memory of all who died in the struggle. It is in two movements, "The Lynching" and "Souls."

One: The Lynching (15'25")

Two: Souls (14'25")