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Van C. Gessel

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Compton, CA, The United States

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Van C. Gessel was born in Compton, California, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints there in October 1968. He served as a missionary to Japan from 1970-71. He received a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University in 1979, and he has taught as a faculty member at Columbia, Notre Dame, UC Berkeley, and Brigham Young University. He was chair of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at BYU and dean of the College of Humanities.

Dr. Gessel has published six translations of literary works by the Japanese Christian novelist Endō Shūsaku, including The Samurai and Deep River. Another Endō novel, The Life of Kiku, will appear soon in his translation. He co-edited, with Reid Neilson, a vol...more

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Books by Van C. Gessel

Average rating: 3.82 · 1,172 ratings · 142 reviews · 15 distinct works

	The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Sting of Life: Four Contemporary Japanese Novelists 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Showa Anthology 1 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	Showa Anthology 2 by Van C. Gessel, Tomone Matsumoto (Editor) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1986	My rating:
	When I Whistle 3.73 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1979 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Japanese Fiction Writers Since World War II 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	American Travel Writers, 1776 1864 by Van C. Gessel, Donald Ross 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Japanese Fiction Writers, 1868-1945 by Van C. Gessel, Richard Layman (Editor), Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	My rating: