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William H. Gass

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American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor

United StatesWritersLived 1924 to 2017 · aged 93
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William Howard Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor.

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2015William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
2013Straelen Translator’s Prize provided by Kunststiftung NRW
2007Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
2003PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
2002National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
1996American Book Awards
1996National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
1985National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
Guggenheim Fellowship

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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 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.

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United States
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Writers
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1924 to 2017 · aged 93
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