In 2003, when the Guardian ran my admiring profile of the writer Gordon Williams, the piece was headed simply Gordon Who? His most notable client in this line was the future England manager Terry Venables (“A very serious, introverted guy,” Williams remembered. Williams pronounced of its director Sam Peckinpah that ‘the man was sick’. Profile: author Gordon Williams Read moreBragg, who became a friend, remembered an epochal early 1970s London pub crawl that began at Blackfriars Bridge and ground to a halt several hours later at the Williams home in Notting Hill. • Gordon Maclean Williams, writer, born 20 June 1934; died 20 August 2017

Source: The Guardian August 21, 2017 14:37 UTC