Gilbert Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino
Born(1929-04-27)April 27, 1929
Brooklyn, New York
DiedMay 18, 2006(2006-05-18) (aged 77)
Brooklyn, New York
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • writer
  • critic
  • professor
Alma materBrooklyn College
GenreFiction
ChildrenJesse
Delia
Christopher

Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27, 1929 – May 18, 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and editor.[1]

In over twenty-five works of fiction and poetry, Sorrentino explored the comic and formal possibilities of language and literature. His insistence on the primacy of language and his forays into metafiction mark him as a postmodernist, but he is also known for his ear for American speech and his attention to the particularities of place, especially of his native Brooklyn.

  1. ^ Ramirez, Anthony (May 22, 2006). "Gilbert Sorrentino, Novelist and professor, Dies at 77". The New York Times.