| 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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