William Howard Gass (1924 to 2017) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic and philosophy professor. Born in Fargo, North Dakota and raised in Warren, Ohio, he studied philosophy at Kenyon College and earned his doctorate at Cornell University in 1954, where he studied under Max Black and briefly Ludwig Wittgenstein, and he taught for many years at Washington University in St. Louis. His fiction includes the novel Omensetter's Luck (1966), the story collection In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (1968) and the epic novel The Tunnel (1995), which took him 26 years to write and received the American Book Award. His essay collections include Fiction and the Figures of Life (1970), and A Temple of Texts (2006) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 2013 novel Middle C won the 2015 William Dean Howells Medal.
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His debut novel, Omensetter's Luck, about life in a small town in Ohio in the 1890s, was published in 1966.
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was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor
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July 30, 1924, December 6, 2017
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His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award.
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won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
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His 2013 novel Middle C won the 2015 William Dean Howells Medal.
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was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor
Writing and publications
His debut novel, Omensetter's Luck, about life in a small town in Ohio in the 1890s, was published in 1966.
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was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor.
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He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories
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He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories
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seven volumes of essays
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