-  Faculty Experts   -  News by Topic   -  News by School Search News & Info WUSTL in the News   - Powered by Google WUSTL Home Public Affairs Home University News Medical News Sports News Radio Service Business, Law & Econ Culture & Living Science & Technology Contact Information TV/Radio Studio Visiting Our Campuses Campus Images Sports photography Commercial Filming    and Photography Commercial Use of    Names and Symbols Domain Name policy Record (newspaper) Campus Calendars WUSTL News Summary Publications Online Facts, Guides & Maps		Washington University in St. Louis News & Information > Faculty Experts at Washington University in St. Louis > William H. Gass Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities Professor Emeritus, Philosophy Expertise: Literary criticism, writing, philosophy Bio: William H. Gass is a world-renowned author and literary critic. He was the founder (in 1990) and first director of the University's International Writers Center in Arts & Sciences — now known as The Center for the Humanities. William H. Gass He is the author of "Omensetter's Luck" (1966), "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories" (1968), "Willie Master's Lonesome Wife" (1968), "Fiction and the Figures of Life" (1971), "On Being Blue" (1976), "The World Within the Word" (1978), "Habitations of the Word: Essays" (1985), "The Tunnel" (1995), "Finding a Form" (1996), "Cartesian Sonata" (1998), "Reading Rilke" (1999) and "Tests of Time" (2003). He has won several major literary awards during his career, including the National Book Critics Circle Award an unprecedented three times: in 1985 for "Habitations of the Word: Essays;" in 1996 for "Finding a Form;" and in 2003 for "Tests of Time." He also won the 1997 Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2000 PEN/Nabokov Award and the PEN/Nabokov Lifetime Achievement Award, which he has called his "most prized prize." Gass, who retired from teaching in 1999, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1982 and to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983. He received an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction in 1975 and Medal of Merit for Fiction in 1979. WUSTL Contact Information: Education: B.A. in Philosophy at Kenyon College Ph.D. in Philosophy at Cornell University News Stories & Tip Sheets: Showing 1 Stories. Prominent figure in American letters William H. Gass wins 2007 Truman Capote Award for 'A Temple of Texts' April 24, 2007 -- "A Temple of Texts" by William H. Gass, Ph.D., the David May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is the 2007 winner of the $30,000 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The Capote Award, the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language, is administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Showing 1 Stories.			Related Information Media Assistance: Neil Schoenherr News Writer; Assoc. Record Editor nschoenherr@wustl.edu (314) 935-5235 Related Links: • Gass receives WUSTL honorary degree Related Groups: Departments: • Philosophy - View All Groups Related Topics: • Arts & Literature • Books / Literature • Culture & Living • Readings / Literary Events - View All Topics Revised: Tuesday, April 24, 2007   Email this page   Print ready page Subscribe WUSTL News by E-mail
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