Marcus Williamson is a British writer, journalist, and campaigner. As an obituarist, he has written

obituaries An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person. Newspapers often publish obituaries as news articles. Although obituaries tend to focus on positive aspects of the subject's life, this is not always the case. Acco ...

of more than 400 subjects, including artists, poets, musicians, actors and inventors for ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' .

Campaigns

Phorm

In 2009, the

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-listed (since delisted and failed) spyware company

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created a website Stopphoulplay.com to attack Williamson and fellow campaigner Alexander Hanff. The company accused Williamson of '...waging a "serial letter writing" campaign to Phorm's potential customers and partners in attempt to discredit the company and Mr Ertugrul.' The site was soon taken down and later described as a "PR disaster".

CEOemail.com

He is the editor of the consumer information website CEOemail.com, which provides the email addresses of many company CEOs. The website is free for non-professional users, with a fee for business users for each email address provided. In 2010, he revealed that the CEO of the

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had closed down his email address, rather than face emails from upset customers.

Publications

* ''The True Celtic Language and the Stone Circle of Rennes les Bains''. 2008. . Translation of an 1886 work by Henri Boudet. * ''Claude Cahun at School in England''. Lulu, 2011. . * ''Path''. Atelier St Louis Production, 2011. With Jonathan Moss. . * ''Rene Halkett: From Bauhaus to Cornwall''. Catalogue of exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery, 2019. * ''The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism''. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. Williamson contributed biographical articles on

Raymond Roussel Raymond Roussel (; 20 January 1877 – 14 July 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th century French litera ...

Sarane Alexandrian Sarane Alexandrian (15 June 1927, Baghdad – 11 September 2009, Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher, essayist, and art critic. Early life Alexandrian was born to a French mother and Armenian father, Vartan Alexandrian, a stomatologist ...

, Ithell Colquhoun,

David Gascoyne David Gascoyne (10 October 1916 – 25 November 2001) was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement, in particular the British Surrealist Group. Additionally, he translated work by French surrealist poets. Early life and surreal ...

and Isabelle Waldberg.

References

Living people British male journalists The Independent people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-journalist-stub