William Gaddis

William Gaddis (1922–1998) was an American novelist whose first and longest of five novels, The Recognitions, TIME named among its 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005. Two others, JR and A Frolic of His Own, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, and JR is a satire. A MacArthur Fellow, he is widely considered one of the first and most important American postmodern writers, and his essays were collected posthumously as The Rush for Second Place.