William H. Gass --- essayist, novelist, literary critic --- was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He is the author of six works of fiction and nine books of essays, including LIFE SENTENCES, A TEMPLE OF TEXTS, and TESTS OF TIME. Gass is a former professor of philosophy at Washington University. He lives with his wife, the architect Mary Gass, in St. Louis.

Books by William H. Gass

Middle C

by William H. Gass - Fiction, Historical , Historical Fiction

William H. Gass’s new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of variations, Gass gives us a mosaic of a life --- futile, comic, anarchic --- arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms and tones, and broken pieces with music as both theme and structure, set in the key of middle C.