. . . . . . . . . "William Howard Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award."@en . . "Gass, William H."@en . "William Howard Gass"@en . "Fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor" . "1959Z"^^ . "1924-07-30Z"^^ . "1924Z"^^ .