Quick Facts About William H. Gass
- Born
- July 30, 1924
- Died
- December 6, 2017
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Military Officer
- Notable works
- Fiction and the figures of life
- Known for
- In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Omensetter's Luck, The Tunnel, Middle C
About William H. Gass
William Howard Gass 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.
Biography source:
Wikipedia
Awards & Honors
American Book Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship
William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
Straelen Translator’s Prize provided by Kunststiftung NRW
