biography
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Gass, William H(oward)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Fargo, North Dakota, USA. After studying at Ohio, Wesleyan, Delaware, and Cornell universities, he became a philosopher and literary critic, as well as a novelist. A stylistic experimenter, he was criticized for neglecting characterization, punctuation, and plot, but nevertheless won acclaim for his first novel Omensetter's Luck (1966), his novella Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (1968), and his collection of short stories In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (1968). Later books include the collected essays, Finding a Form (1996) and the critical work Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation (1999). |
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