WRITER

William H. Gass

1924 - 2017

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William Howard Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William H. Gass has received more than 333,408 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. William H. Gass is the 6,307th most popular writer (down from 5,858th in 2019), the 11,270th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,386th in 2019) and the 830th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Omensetter's Luck
Fiction, City and town life, Clergy
1966
In the heart of the heart of the country & other stories
Fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, general
1968
A temple of texts
Authorship, Best books, Books and reading
1991
The Tunnel
Fiction, College teachers, Historians
1995
Finding a form
Literary form, New York Times reviewed
1996
Fiction and the figures of life
History and criticism, Fiction, Literatur
1970

Page views of William H. Gasses by language

Over the past year William H. Gass has had the most page views in the with 40,845 views, followed by Spanish (2,673), and Russian (1,754). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (58.19%), Basque (50.86%), and Simple English (48.25%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William H. Gass ranks 6,307 out of 7,302. Before him are Lynne Cox, Kate Morton, Joanna Baillie, Wayne C. Booth, Frances Harper, and John Toll. After him are Jean Stafford, Humphrey Carpenter, Brian Moore, Alastair Reynolds, Dick King-Smith, and Sandra Cisneros.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, William H. Gass ranks 467. Before him are Wally Cox, Paulo Muwanga, Jeremiah Denton, Joy Page, Ron Staniforth, and Nek Chand. After him are Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Terry Southern, Ivan Udodov, Tapan Sinha, Louie Bellson, and Jimmy Rogers. Among people deceased in 2017, William H. Gass ranks 554. Before him are Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov, George Mostow, Hugo Budinger, Karel Schoeman, Ryszard Parulski, and Steve Sumner. After him are Rhodri Morgan, Fernand Decanali, Yash Pal, Mario Tullio Montano, Richard Wilbur, and Benjamin Whitrow.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William H. Gass ranks 11,270 out of 20,380. Before him are Frances Harper (1825), T.I. (1980), Don Stark (1954), John Toll (1952), John Allen Nelson (1959), and Oscar Osthoff (1883). After him are Branford Marsalis (1960), Yolanda King (1955), Hugh Marlowe (1911), Big Joe Williams (1903), Tamara Dobson (1947), and Jean Stafford (1915).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, William H. Gass ranks 830. Before him are Paul Klebnikov (1963), Colleen Hoover (1979), Lynne Cox (1957), Wayne C. Booth (1921), Frances Harper (1825), and John Toll (1952). After him are Jean Stafford (1915), Sandra Cisneros (1954), Bill Bright (1921), Christina Hoff Sommers (1950), Alyson Noël (1965), and Naomi Wolf (1962).

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