William H. Gass
William H. Gass | |
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Gass at the 2010 National Book Critics Circle awards | |
| Born | William Howard Gass July 30, 1924 Fargo, North Dakota, U.S. |
| Died | December 6, 2017 (aged 93) University City, Missouri, U.S. |
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| 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 |
William Howard Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017) 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.