William H. Gass (1924–2017)
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William Howard Gass was born in Fargo, North Dakota on July 30, 1924. During World War II, he served as an ensign in the Navy. He received an A.B. in philosophy from Kenyon College in 1947 and a PhD in philosophy from Cornell University in 1954. He taught at several universities including The mehr anzeigen College of Wooster, Purdue University, and Washington University in St. Louis. He wrote novels, collections of short stories and novellas, and collections of criticism. His novels included Omensetter's Luck, Middle C, and The Tunnel, which received the American Book Award. His other works of fiction included In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Willie Master's Lonesome Wife, Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas, and Eyes: Novellas and Stories. His collections of criticism included Tests of Time; A Temple of Texts, which won the 2007 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism; and Habitations of the Word and Finding a Form, which both won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. His essay collections included Fiction and the Figures of Life, The World Within the Word, and Reading Rilke. He died from congestive heart failure on December 6, 2017 at the age of 93. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Fifty Literary Pillars : A Temple of Texts: An Exhibition to Inaugurate the International Writers Center 4 Exemplare
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For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Mitwirkender — 452 Exemplare
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The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Mitwirkender — 83 Exemplare
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Mitwirkender — 72 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Gass, William H.
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Gass, William Howard
- Geburtstag
- 1924-07-30
- Todestag
- 2017-12-06
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Fargo, North Dakota, USA
- Sterbeort
- University City, Missouri, USA
- Wohnorte
- Warren, Ohio, USA
- Ausbildung
- Ohio Wesleyan University
Kenyon College (BA|1947 - Philosophy)
Cornell University (PhD|1954 - Philosophy)
Warren G. Harding High School - Berufe
- distinguished professor
novelist
short story writer
essayist
critic - Beziehungen
- Gass, Mary (wife)
- Organisationen
- Washington University in St. Louis
Purdue University
College of Wooster
United States Navy (WWII) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- PEN/Nabokov Award (2000)
Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award (1997)
Pushcart Prize (1976, 1983, 1987, 1992)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1975)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982)
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1983) (Zeige alle 7)
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (1985, 1996, 2002)
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