The Sunlight Dialogues (New Directions Paperbook)
John Gardner(1933-1982) was one of the most provocative and successful American novelists of his generation, garnering critical praise and a popular following for his fiction, includingOctober Light, Nickel Mountain, Grendel, andThe Wreckage of Agathon. His volumes of criticism, the groundbreakingMoral Fictionand his controversialThe Art of Fiction, have become standard texts in university writing classes around the country.Charles Johnsonis the author ofMiddle Passage, winner of the National Book Award for fiction. He is the Pollock Professor in Humanities at the University of Washington, and a MacArthur Fellow. In 2003 he publishedTurning the Wheel, a collection of essays about his experiences as an African-American Buddhist.