William H. Gass

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William H. Gass
Gass at the 2010 National Book Critics Circle awards
Born	William Howard Gass (1924-07-30)July 30, 1924 Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.
Died	December 6, 2017(2017-12-06) (aged 93) University City, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Short story writer novelist essayist critic philosophy professor
Education	Kenyon College (AB) Cornell University (PhD)
Period	1959–2017
Genre	Creative nonfiction, metafiction
Literary movement	Postmodernism, metafiction
Notable works	The Tunnel, A Temple of Texts, Middle C

William Howard Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017)^[1] 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.