Robert Steven Williams

Robert Steven Williams is an award wining film maker and novelist. He's also a singer-songwriter and entrepreneur. His documentary Gatsby in Connecticut was selected by The New Yorker as one of the Best Movies of 2020. It also won Best New England film at the Mystic Film Festival. The film features Sam Waterston and is narrated by Keir Dullea (distributed by Vision Films). Williams's debut novel, My Year as a Clown was published in December 2012 by Against the Grain Press. It won the silver medal for popular fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2013. Williams was one of the winners in the 2014 Great American Fiction Contest sponsored by the Saturday Evening Post. He was also a finalist in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. He worked closely with the esteemed fiction writer, Barry Hannah. Robert's short fiction has appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Carve Magazine, and The Orange Coast Review. Additionally, he was the executive producer of the critically acclaimed BOOM! Studios CBGB Comic series and nominated for a 2011 Harvey Award for Best Anthology (and writer of story 6/book 3). Robert's work has also appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine, Billboard, and USA Today. He is also co-author of the best-selling business book, The World's Largest Market. As a musician, Williams studied songwriting with Rosanne Cash, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and several other top country writers. In 2005 he released the critically acclaimed CD "I Am Not My Job," featuring Rachel Z (Peter Gabriel, Wayne Shorter) and Sloan Wainwright. The song "Only She Knows," included as a free download in My Year as a Clown, was produced by the Irish singer/songwriter Declan O'Rourke. He wrote the foreword to the companion book to his film Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story (book is called Boats Against the Current by Richard Webb).