Yet it is for his extraordinary novels, which brought him the admiration of Rebecca West and the friendship of both T. S. Eliot and C. S. Lewis, that Williams is best known.
Williams was born in London. His mother, Mary, had the amateur antiquarian writer J. C. Wall for a brother. His father, Walter, was employed as a foreign correspondence clerk but published poems and short stories in periodicals, including Charles Dickens's Household Words. In 1894, when Walter's firm failed and his eyesight was deteriorating, the family moved to Saint Albans, where Mary opened an art-supply shop. Charles Williams won scholarships to the Grammar School and in 1901 to University College, London, but still could not afford to complete his studies there. In 1904 he found work at a Methodist publishing office and bookroom and began attending lectures at the Working Men's College.
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