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William H. Gass

1924 - 2017

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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William H. Gass is the 6,294th most popular writer (up from 6,307th in 2019), the 11,457th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,275th in 2019) and the 832nd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, William H. Gass ranks 6,294 out of 7,302Before him are Michal Šanda, Kathleen Raine, Joan Carreras i Goicoechea, Bayard Taylor, John Toll, and Chris Claremont. After him are Mah Laqa Bai, Gillian Flynn, Richard K. Morgan, Crane Wilbur, Polly Samson, and Peter Stamm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, William H. Gass ranks 475Before him are Tapan Sinha, Georges Dransart, Wally Cox, Bill Smith, Carole Cook, and Patricia Roberts Harris. After him are George Amick, Ron Staniforth, Vicki Draves, Ivan Udodov, Ralph Miliband, and Terry Southern. Among people deceased in 2017, William H. Gass ranks 567Before him are George Steele, Seija Simola, Thomas Starzl, Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov, Maria Verónica Reina, and Erin Moran. After him are Carlos Gómez, Aleksandr Salnikov, Molly Peters, Lika Kavzharadze, Richard Wilbur, and Ricardo Vidal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William H. Gass ranks 11,459 out of 20,380Before him are Luther Adler (1903), Dream (1999), Fairuza Balk (1974), Slim Summerville (1892), Amanda Blake (1929), and Libby Holman (1904). After him are Andrew Bryniarski (1969), Peter Travers (2000), Gus Williams (1953), Terry Farrell (1963), Johnny Moss (1907), and Christine Taylor (1971).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, William H. Gass ranks 832Before him are Stephen Glass (1972), Brené Brown (1965), Charles Eastman (1858), Jack McDevitt (1935), Bayard Taylor (1825), and John Toll (1952). After him are Gillian Flynn (1971), Crane Wilbur (1886), Meg Cabot (1967), N. Scott Momaday (1934), Abby Mann (1927), and Eric Van Lustbader (1946).