# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-h-gass
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:31:51.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-h-gass"
name: "William H. Gass"
slug: "william-h-gass"
description: "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."
tagline: "American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Gass_2011_Shankbone.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1924-07-30"
deathDate: "2017-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump