William H. Gass
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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Fargo
- Educated at
- Kenyon CollegeCornell UniversityOhio Wesleyan University
- Awards
- 🏆 William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters🏆 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay🏆 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism🏆 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism🏆 Straelen Translator’s Prize provided by Kunststiftung NRW
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Trending topics shown first"The devil does not sign contracts with just anyone. Upon the tens of millions, no judgment is pronounced. For them there is death, of course, but no doom. The trouble with history is its incorrigible …"
"I wonder how many men and women, kids and dogs, go through life in a state of modest misery; how much communal coldness there is, how much extinguished hope."
"O, Koh, the limerick is the unrefiner's fire. It is as false and lifeless, as anonymous, as a rubber snake, a Dixie cup. It is indeed the dildo of desire! No one ever found a thought in one. No one ev…"
"But if you want to think about something really funny, consider how the titles of tyrants change. We shall suffer no more Emperors, Kings, Czars, Shahs, or Caesars, to lop off our limbs and burn our h…"
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1924
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