William H. Gass
1924
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2017
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Ohio Wesleyan University, Cornell University, Kenyon College
occupation: military officer, novelist, journalist, essayist, writer, university teacher, literary critic, prosaist, critic
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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works 7
Middle C
The Tunnel
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Omensetter's Luck
Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
Au cœur du cœur de ce pays
Sonate cartésienne
Cartesian sonata
Articles
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