William Gay

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born

Hohenwald, Tennessee, The United States

died

February 23, 2012

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

influences

Cormac McCarthy, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe

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William Gay (b. 1943) was the author of the novels Provinces of Night, The Long Home, and Twilight and the short story collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down. He is the winner of the 1999 William Peden Award and the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize and the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 1,911 ratings · 324 reviews · 18 distinct works

	I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories 4.24 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Twilight 3.86 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Provinces of Night 4.18 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 1900 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Long Home 4.09 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Wittgenstein's Lolita by William Gay, J. M. White (Afterword) 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Time Done Been Won't Be No More by William Gay, J.M. White (Compiler) 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Alumni Grill by William Gay, Suzanne Kinsbury (Editor) 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ruhe Nirgends Roman by William Gay, Joachim Körber (Übersetzer) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Lost Country 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Walt Whitman, the Poet of Democracy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by William Gay

“She was a page torn from a calendar, a year folded neatly and laid aside in some place you never look.”
― William Gay, Twilight

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