William H. Gass
American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor (1924–2017) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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William Howard Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017)[1] was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award. His 2013 novel Middle C won the 2015 William Dean Howells Medal.
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Born | William Howard Gass (1924-07-30)July 30, 1924 Fargo, North Dakota, U.S. |
Died | December 6, 2017(2017-12-06) (aged 93) University City, Missouri, U.S. |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Kenyon College (AB) Cornell University (PhD) |
Period | 1959–2017 |
Genre | Creative nonfiction, metafiction |
Literary movement | Postmodernism, metafiction |
Notable works | The Tunnel, A Temple of Texts, Middle C |
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