WILLIAM H. GASS, 1986
Dominique Nabokov
1924 ~ 2017
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William Howard Gass was born in Fargo, N.D., on July 30, 1924, the son of William Gass and the former Claire Sorenson. When he was six weeks old his father moved the family to Warren, Ohio. William grew up during the Depression, spending summers in North Dakota. “These were the dust bowl years, too; grasshoppers ate even the daylight,” he wrote.
The New York Times
7 December 2017
Fiction[edit]
- Omensetter's Luck (1966)
- In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (five stories) (1968)
- Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (illustrated novella) (1968)
- The Tunnel (1995)
- Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas (four novellas) (1998)
- Middle C (2013)
- Eyes (two novellas, four short stories) (2015)
Non-fiction[edit]
- Fiction and the Figures of Life (1970)
- On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry (1976)
- The World within the Word (1978)
- Habitations of the Word (1984)
- Finding a Form: Essays (1997)
- Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation (1999)
- Tests of Time (2002)
- Conversations with William H. Gass (2003)
- A Temple of Texts (2006)
- Life Sentences (2012)
