Later Years
The mid-1920s were the peak of Williams’ short-story-writing career. In 1926, he published an impressive twenty-one stories in the Saturday Evening Post in addition to the stories he published in other magazines that same year. There were two main factors contributing to his slow fade out of the spotlight: the Great Depression and the trend towards shorter fiction, a tough mold for the often-verbose Williams to fit into. This transition away from magazine culture enabled him to focus on novel-writing, which he did until he died of a heart attack in 1953.
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