William H. Gass, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William H. Gass

American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor

Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1924

Place of Birth: Fargo, North Dakota, United States

Date of Death: 06-Dec-2017

Profession: writer, military officer, university teacher, journalist, literary critic, novelist, essayist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

William Howard Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017) 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 have 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.