William H. Gass
William H. Gass Born William Howard Gass (1924-07-30) July 30, 1924 (age 90) Fargo, North Dakota, United States Occupation Short-story writer, novelist, essayist, critic Nationality American Period 1959–present Genre Creative nonfiction, Metafiction Literary movement Postmodernism, Metafiction Notable works The Tunnel, Omensetter's Luck, A Temple of Texts William Howard Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written 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.