 Joyce Ravid | William H. Gass (1924–2017)Includes the names: WH Gass, Gass Wh, WIlliam Gass, William Gass, William H. Gass, Gass William H., William S. Gass, William H Gass PhD, William Howard Gass, William H. Gass et al. ... (see complete list), William H. and more Gass | 5,208 (15,417) | 201 | 4,096 |  (3.97) | 30 | 0 | William Howard Gass was born in Fargo, North Dakota on July 30, 1924. During World War II, he served as an ensign in the Navy. He received an A.B. in philosophy from Kenyon College in 1947 and a PhD in philosophy from Cornell University in 1954. He taught at several universities including The College of Wooster, Purdue University, and Washington University in St. Louis. He wrote novels, collections of short stories and novellas, and collections of criticism. His novels included Omensetter's Luck, Middle C, and The Tunnel, which received the American Book Award. His other works of fiction included In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Willie Master's Lonesome Wife, Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas, and Eyes: Novellas and Stories. His collections of criticism included Tests of Time; A Temple of Texts, which won the 2007 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism; and Habitations of the Word and Finding a Form, which both won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. His essay collections included Fiction and the Figures of Life, The World Within the Word, and Reading Rilke. He died from congestive heart failure on December 6, 2017 at the age of 93. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Tunnel … (more) |
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William H. Gass has 1 past event. (show)  William Gass - Middle C Venue: Left Bank Books - Central West End St. Louisan William Gass--essayist, novelist, literary critic, and National Book Critics Circle Award winner--discusses his long-awaited novel, Middle C. It begins in Austria in 1938, as Joseph Skizzen's father, pretending to be Jewish, takes his family to England, before he disappears under mysterious circumstances. Relocated to a small town in Ohio, Joseph grows up and creates a fantasy self with a fantasy goal: to establish the Inhumanity Museum.
Location: Street: Left Bank Books - Central West End Additional: 399 N. Euclid Ave. City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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