# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raymond-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:20:53.951Z

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name: "Raymond Williams"
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description: "Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contributed to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books were sold in UK editions alone, and there are many translations available. His work laid foundations for the field of cultural studies and cultural materialism."
tagline: "Welsh scholar, author, and Marxist literary critic (1921–1988)"
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birthDate: "1921-08-31"
deathDate: "1988-01-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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