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Augustus Warner Williams
1844–1920
A late-19th-century religious writer best remembered for books on revivalist Dwight L. Moody and on the Armenian crisis, he wrote with urgency and a clear sense of mission. His surviving works show a preacherly voice shaped by faith, reform, and the public controversies of his day.
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Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam
by Augustus Warner Williams, M. Smbat Gabrielean
About the author
Augustus Warner Williams (1844–1920) appears in library and public-domain records as an American religious writer, often styled Rev. A. W. Williams. The works that are easiest to confirm today place him in the world of Protestant publishing at the end of the 19th century.
He is best known for Bleeding Armenia: Its History and Horrors under the Curse of Islam (1897), a book associated with M. Smbat Gabriel, and for Life and Work of Dwight L. Moody (1900), published shortly after Moody’s death. He also wrote a much earlier piece on the Irish poet James Clarence Mangan, showing that his interests ranged from literary biography to evangelical and international causes.
Because reliable biographical material about Williams himself is limited in the sources available online, the man is harder to trace than his books. What does come through clearly is the character of his writing: earnest, moral in tone, and aimed at readers who wanted books that informed, persuaded, and stirred sympathy as well as faith.