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William Thomas Gaddis Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. [1] [2] The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 [3] and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [4] A ...
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William Gaddis was an American novelist of complex, satiric works who is considered one of the best of the post-World War II Modernist writers. After incomplete studies at Harvard University (1941–45), Gaddis worked as a fact-checker for The New Yorker magazine for two years and then traveled
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The Gaddis Annotations. Notes on the works of the great 20th-century novelist. William Gaddis. "I feel like part of the vanishing breed that thinks a writer should be read and not heard, let alone seen. I think this is because there seems so often today to be a tendency to put the person in the place of his or her work, to turn the creative ...
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William Gaddis was one of the most innovative and demanding of writers. His four published novels stand tall and totemic in the field of modernist literature. For "The Recognitions," his first ...
Oct 10, 2013 · The letters of William Gaddis. October 10, 2013 issue. Reviewed: The Letters of William Gaddis. edited by Steven Moore, with an afterword by Sarah Gaddis. Dalkey Archive, 545 pp., $34.50. William Gaddis was nineteen in 1942, when he wrote to his mother, Edith Gaddis, saying that the “section man” in his Harvard English class had recommended ...
Dec 17, 1998 · William Gaddis was the author of five novels. He was born in New York December 29, 1922. The circumstances why he left Harvard in his senior year are mysterious. He worked for The New Yorker for a spell in the 1950s, and absorbed experiences at the bohemian parties and happenings, to be later used as material in The Recognitions. Travel ...
Oct 19, 2020 · A magnificent example of rant. A perfect example really. The Recognitions, William Gaddis’s first novel, was seven years in construction. J R, his second, took more than twice that long. In each case the invalid miraculously arose and, with commanding vigor, transformed and transforming, entered the realm of great literature.
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