Gass, William H[oward]
Gass, William H[oward]( 1924–),graduated from Kenyon College, received a Ph.D. from Cornell, became a professor of philosophy while carrying on a literary career, and was appointed to Washington University (St. Louis) in 1980. His fiction includes a novel, Omensetter's Luck (1966), about a symbolically significant man who comes to settle in an Ohio River town; In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (1968), stories and novellas, also evoking small-town life in the Midwest; and Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (1970), a lively novella about a stripteaser's recollections and activities, which is a commentary on art in general. In 1995 Gass published a monumental novel, The Tunnel, to critical acclaim. On Being Blue (1976) is a brief, fanciful meditation on the significance, sexual and other, of the color blue. Among his numerous volumes of literary essays, Habitations of the Word (1985) and Finding a...
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