George R. Williams Sr. was born and raised in the environs of Memphis, Tennessee, and received his early schooling in the education systems there.
At the age of twenty, he moved to Detroit, Michigan with his family, where he still resides as of today. He became a student at Michigan State University in 1956 and remained as such until being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1958. Upon returning home two years later, he re-entered Michigan State University, and went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science in 1963.
In October 1965, George was wedded to Gladys Wilks of Gallatan, Tennessee, they were blessed with three children: George Jr., Deborah and Stephanie.
In the work force, George has served as an educator and corrections officer. He also has deep interest in the development of young entrepreneurs, and has spent a good part of the last twenty-five years advancing this effort. He presently serves as a mentor and advisor at three internet based service companies.
His literary interest first budded while in the military, when he was asked by some of his fellow soldiers to help with the writing of their “sweetheart” letters to their girlfriends back home.
During the early nineteen-sixties, as a student at Michigan State University, George participated in the writing of an on campus play titled “The Man Called Nigger”, which was reviewed favorably in Ebony Magazine as part of a story it was doing about Ernest Green, who was a member of the group of black students that integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Mr. Green is a graduate of MSU. George was a member of Pride Greeting Card Company of Detroit for a period during the nineteen-seventies. The company created, manufactured, and distributed a full line of Black greeting cards at the local and national level. He is presently compiling poems, aphorisms and posters written by him for future publication.
In 1956, George came under the pastoral ship of the late Reverend Roger W. Dixon, when he joined King David Missionary Baptist Church located in Detroit Michigan. The Pastor envisioned great things for George and shortly thereafter he became the first chairman of the churches trustee board. He still serves faithfully under the leadership of the Reverend Sterling H. Brewer.
