William H. Gass
(1924-2017)
American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor
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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 have 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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30 July 1924 Fargo, North Dakota
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| Died |
6 December 2017 (aged 93) University City, Missouri
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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