William H. Gass

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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 have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts , 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.

Published Works

• A Conversation with Stanley Elkin and William H. Gass
• Mad Meg
• Fiction Chronicle
• Re-Translation
• NARRATIVE SENTENCES
• An Interview with William Gass
• The Case of the Obliging Stranger
• Fiction Chronicle
• Habitations of the Word
• Stuttgart lecture One: Space
Stuttgart Lecture Two: Form
Quotations from Chairman Flaubert
There Was an Old Woman Who
Transformations
The Architecture of the Sentence
THE TOY CHEST
ON WANTING TO SAY
The Concept of Character in Fiction
Birthday Boys
An Interview with William Gass
NARRATIVE SENTENCES
THE TOY CHEST
ON WANTING TO SAY: [SPOKEN SLOWLY, BY A POORLY RECEIVED WRITER TO A POET]
Introduction: Anywhere but Kansas
Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's
The Literary Miracle
Contemporary Fiction
An Interview with William H. Gass
Habitations of the Word
Rickie's Cow: Makers and Shapers in Contemporary Fiction
Carrots, Noses, Snow, Rose, Roses
A Philosophy of the Real and the Possible.
The Burning Fountain.
The Ethical Idealism of Matthew Arnold.
Culp
Love Lavished on Speech
A Conversation with William Gass
The Writer and Religion
The World within the Word
Encomium for Assia Djebar, 1996 Neustadt Prize Laureate
Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas
Tests of Time
On Being Blue
The Tunnel
The Concept of Character in Fiction
Right On
Exile
The Neglect of The Fifth Queen
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Other Resources

• en.wikipedia.org

Schools

Washington University in St. Louis

University in St. Louis, Missouri, United States

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Kenyon College

Private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, United States

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Ohio Wesleyan University

Private liberal arts university in Delaware, Ohio, United States

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Cornell University

Private university in Ithaca

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Purdue University

Public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

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Notable Works

• Omensetter's Luck

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