Gardner, John [Champlin, Jr.]
Gardner, John [Champlin, Jr.]( 1933–82),after graduation from Washington University, St. Louis, and a Ph.D. from Iowa State University, became a professor of English at several universities and, beginning in the 1960s, a prolific and popular author. His novels include The Resurrection (1966), about a professor of philosophy who returns to his upstate New York childhood home when he is dying; The Wreckage of Agathon (1970), a metaphysical analysis of civilization through the dialogue of a dying Greek philosopher and his disciple; Grendel (1971), a tour de force in telling the story of Beowulf from the sympathetic viewpoint of the monster; The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), a multi-charactered philosophic and allegorical tale set in his birthplace, Batavia, N.Y.; Nickel Mountain (1973), a pastoral set in the Catskills characterizing a man through his relationships; October Light (1976,...
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