William H. Gass AKA William Howard Gass Born: 30-Jul-1924 Birthplace: Fargo, ND Died: 6-Dec-2017 Location of death: University City, MO Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist, Essayist Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Tunnel Military service: US Navy (1943-46, Ens.) Father: William Gass (architect and teacher) Mother: Claire Sorenson Wife: Mary Pat O'Kelly (m. 1952, div., two sons, one daughter) Son: Richard Son: Robert Daughter: Susan Wife: Mary Alice Henderson (m. 1969, two daughters) Daughter: Catherine Daughter: Elizabeth Gass-Boshoven
High School: Warren G. Harding Senior High School, Warren, OH University: Ohio Wesleyan University (attended 1943) University: AB Philosophy, Kenyon College (1947) University: PhD Philosophy, Cornell University (1954) Instructor: Philosophy, College of Wooster (1949-54) Professor: Philosophy, Purdue University (1954-69) Professor: Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis (1969-99, afterwards emeritus)
American Book Award 1997 for The Tunnel National Book Critics Circle Award 1985 for Habitations of the Word National Book Critics Circle Award 1996 for Finding a Form Guggenheim Fellowship 1970 St. Louis Walk of Fame 17-May-1998 American Academy of Arts and Letters
Author of books:
Omensetter's Luck (1966, novel) In The Heart of the Heart of the Country (1968, short stories) Willie Master's Lonesome Wife (1968, novella) Fiction and the Figures of Life (1970, essays) On Being Blue (1976, essays) The World Within the Word (1978, essays) The First Winter of My Married Life (1979) Habitations of the Word (1985, essays) Culp (1986) The Tunnel (1995) Finding a Form (1996, essays) Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas (1998, short stories)
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