Category:William H. Gass

**William H. Gass**
	American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor
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Date of birth	30 July 1924; Fargo
Date of death	6 December 2017; University City
Cause of death	heart failure;
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	Ohio Wesleyan University; Cornell University; Kenyon College;
Occupation	military officer; novelist; journalist; essayist; writer; university teacher; literary critic; prose writer; critic;
Employer	Purdue University; Washington University in St. Louis;
Member of	American Academy of Arts and Letters; American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
Notable work	The Tunnel; Omensetter's Luck;
Award received	Guggenheim Fellowship; PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2003); Straelen Translator’s Prize provided by Kunststiftung NRW (2013); American Book Awards (1996); William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters;
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William Howard Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American writer, literary critic and former philosophy professor. He has won three National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His received the American Book Award for his 1995 novel, The Tunnel.