Charles Walter Stansby Williams was a distinguished British author and scholar, born in London on 20 September 1886. He was the only son of Richard Walter Stansby Williams and Mary, the daughter of Thomas Wall, a cabinet maker. Educated at St. Albans School and University College, London, Williams joined the Oxford University Press as a reader in 1908, where he remained a beloved staff member until his death.

Williams's literary career began in 1912 with the publication of his first book of verse, The Silver Stair. Over the next thirty-three years, he tirelessly produced poetry, plays, literary criticism, fiction, biography, and theological argument. A devoted member of the Church of England, he propagated and elaborated two main doctrines: romantic love and the coinherence of all human creatures. These themes were extensively explored in his novels, Arthurian poems, and various literary and theological works.

He was a member of the Oxford literary group, the 'Inklings', alongside C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. His notable works include The English Poetic Mind (1932), Reason and Beauty in the Poetic Mind (1933), and The Figure of Beatrice (1943). Williams was also recognized with an honorary MA from Oxford University in 1943.

He married Florence Conway in 1917, and they had one son. Williams passed away in Oxford on 15 May 1945.