Christian Williams

Christian Williams (born July 9, 1943) is an American journalist, television writer, and yachtsman. A former editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate era, he later created two television dramas and is the author of five books including the Ted Turner biography Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way. Journalism Williams joined The Washington Post in 1972 as an assistant editor of the Style Section. When the cast and crew of the Robert Redford movie All The President's Men descended on the newsroom to conduct research for the film, Williams served as the assignment editor on the article about the experience behind the scenes. "It was the age of cool. And suddenly we were cool," Williams said. "You could put out nine calls on deadline at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and get nine callbacks in a half an hour. People were paying attention." He was arts editor at the paper from 1976 to 1980. In 1981, he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for a series on Isidore Zimmerman, wrongly imprisoned for 25 years. In 1984, he joined Bob Woodward's investigative team. Television In 1986, ABC produced a three-hour movie of the week, Under Siege, written by Bob Woodward, Richard Harwood and Williams based on their terrorism reporting. After Williams and Woodward penned an episode of the NBC crime drama Hill Street Blues, Williams left the Post and moved to Hollywood.