William Gay (1) (1941–2012)
Autore di Twilight
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Sull'Autore
William Gay was born in Hohenwald, Tennessee on October 27, 1941. After graduating from high school, he joined the United States Navy and served during the Vietnam War. Before becoming a writer at the age of 57, he worked as a carpenter, drywall-hanger and house painter. His first short story, I mostra altro Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, was published in the Georgia Review literary journal in 1998. In 2009, it was adapted into a film entitled That Evening Sun starring Hal Holbrook. His first novel, The Long Home, was published in 1999 and won the James A. Michener Memorial Prize. His other works include Twilight, The Lost Country, and Provinces of Night, which was also adapted into a film, entitled Bloodworth starring Val Kilmer and Kris Kristofferson in 2010. He died of a heart attack on February 23, 2012 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di William Gay
The Paperhanger {story} 1 copia
Opere correlate
Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South (2005) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit (2010) — Collaboratore — 41 copie
The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years (2014) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Gay, William Elbert
- Data di nascita
- 1941-10-27
- Data di morte
- 2012-02-23
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Hohenwald, Tennessee, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Hohenwald, Tennessee, USA
- Causa della morte
- heart attack
- Luogo di residenza
- Hohenwald, Tennessee, USA
New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Attività lavorative
- carpenter
U.S. Navy - Organizzazioni
- United States Navy (Vietnam War)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Five star books (3)
Same Title (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 16
- Opere correlate
- 22
- Utenti
- 1,724
- Popolarità
- #14,910
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 65
- ISBN
- 102
- Lingue
- 6
- Preferito da
- 12
Here there are short stories, unfinished fragments, bits of memoir. The Trace is a Faulkner-like fragment of an epic trip taken by a man and his brother’s wife to find the brother. The Ascension of Pepper Yates is the story of a wanna-be cop who stumbles into a real police job. There are stories of family strife, men loving the wrong women, men screwing up by way of drink and losing jobs.
Gay writes of his love of reading and the endless quest to find enough books as a child. He writes about Faulkner and his influence on Gay’s own writing. A highly satisfying collection that adds to Gay’s catalog.… (altro)