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Bookmark or Share- Obituary: William H. Gass, professor emeritus, 93William H. Gass, the David May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, died Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, at his home in University City, Mo. He was 93.
- William Gass on 12 of the Most Important Books in His LifeWilliam H. Gass—essayist, novelist, literary critic—was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He is the author of seven works of fiction and nine books of essays, including Life Sentences, A Temple of Texts, and Tests of Time, and was a professor of philosophy at Washington University. He died in 2017.
- William H. Gass’s Advice for Writers: “You Have to be Grimly Determined ...William H. Gass, author of Omensetter’s Luck, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, and Middle C, died on Wednesday at the age of 93 at his home in St. Louis. Gass was a boundary-breaking experimental writer (please read In the Heart of the Heart of the Country) as well as a critic, essayist […]
- William H. Gass | Postmodernist, Novelist, Essayist | BritannicaWilliam H. Gass (born July 30, 1924, Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.—died December 6, 2017, St. Louis, Missouri) was an American writer noted for his experimentation with stylistic devices. Gass called his fiction works “experimental constructions,” and each of his books contains stylistic innovations.
- The Radical Criticism of William Gass | The New YorkerWilliam Gass, who died this week, argued that the charge of a writer was not to relate a world but to create one—a world of sound, of the melody made when syllables collide.
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