# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-gaddis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:01:23.542Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/william-gaddis"
name: "William Gaddis"
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description: "William Thomas Gaddis Jr. was an American novelist.\nThe first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005\nand two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.\nA collection of his essays was published posthumously as The Rush for Second Place (2002). The Letters of William Gaddis was published by Dalkey Archive Press in February 2013."
tagline: "American novelist (1922–1998)"
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birthDate: "1922-12-29"
deathDate: "1998-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump