William H. Gass

William H. Gass (1924–2017) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosophy professor. Among his books are Omensetter's Luck, a novel about a charismatic newcomer who unsettles a small town on the Ohio River, and The Tunnel, which won the American Book Award in 1995. Three of Gass's essay volumes won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes, and Middle C won the William Dean Howells Medal in 2015. Gass died in 2017.