List Of Writers

WILLIAMS, PETER N.

Peter N. Williams was born in Mancot and grew up in Flint. He was educated at King’s School, Chester and at University College, Swansea where he graduated with a degree in History. Peter then moved to the United States, and was almost immediately drafted in military service in southern Germany. Upon return to the US, Peter gained a PhD in English from the University of Delaware and taught in Delaware schools.

He then taught English at the University of Delaware before becoming chairman of the English Department at Delaware Technical and Community College. He is now the editor of www.celticinfo.com. Founder of the Welsh Society of Delaware, and a director of the National Welsh American Foundation, Peter was honoured for his work on behalf of Wales and Welsh Americans by being made a member of the Gorsedd at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1999. Peter is the author of The Sacred Places of Wales; From Wales to the Lehigh, The David Thomas Story; and the editor of 38 Hymns in Welsh and English.

Selected Publications:
David Thomas: Iron Man from Wales: The Story of an Immigrant and of the Country He Left Behind (National Welsh–American Foundation, 1995)
The Sacred Places of Wales: A Modern Pilgirmage (AuthorHouse, 2001)
Presenting Wales from A to Y – The People, the Places, the Traditions: An Alphabetical Guide to a Nation’s Heritage (Trafford, 2003)
From Wales to Pennsylvania: The David Thomas Story (Glyndur Publishing, 2003)
The Book of Wales (Airleaf, 2006)
The Long Hard Struggle: The Story of Wales (Indiana, 2006)
An Alphabetical Guide to Wales and the Welsh (Airleaf, 2006) 
Whistling in the Soup: Not So-Tall Tales of Growing Up in Troubled Times (Outskirts Press, 2007)

Contributed to:
38 Hymns in Welsh and English (editor)