Ian Williams

His first book The alms trade: Charities, past, present, and future was published in 1989 and United Nations for Beginners was published in 1995, Deserter: George Bush’s War on Military Families, Veterans, and His Past was published in 2004, and quickly followed by his current book, (August 2005) Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real

Spirit of 1776 He has contributed chapters to George Orwell into the 21st Century - T Cushman ed, Paradigm Publishing 2005, Why Kosovo Matters: The Debate on the Left Revisited - Danny Postel, ed. (Cybereditions, 2005) Irving Howe, Ed. John Rodden “Irving Howe’s hero-worship of Trotsky: Where the NeoCons came from,” and a poem, the Rubayat of Alfred J Prufrock, MBA, to The KGB Bar Reader, Nation Books, ed Mark Jacobson.

In 2006, he will have chapters in The Iraq War, Rick Fawn and Raymond Hinnebusch (eds), 2005 “The UN and Iraq,” and The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell - Ed. John Rodden Cambridge University Press.

Ian Williams won the Liverpool Press Club Award for “Byline Mania,” in 1985 with his centre-fold in the Baptist Times. In 2007 he capped that with an article in Hustler.

He has been a regular contributor in Britain to the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph, the European, the Observer, the Independent, the Sunday Herald, the Scotsman and to magazines such as the New Statesman, Plays & Players and Punch.

In the US he has contributed to Newsday, LA Weekly, Village Voice, New York Observer Penthouse, and many others. He writes for online media such as Salon, OpenDemocracy and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. For online articles please click here.

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