John Gardner (American writer)

John Champlin Gardner Jr. (July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor. He was known for his novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.

Gardner was killed in a motorcycle accident in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, aged 49.

Works
Fiction
 The Resurrection, 1966. 
 The Wreckage of Agathon, 1970.
 Grendel, 1971.
 The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972. 
 Jason and Medeia, 1973. 
 Nickel Mountain: A Pastoral Novel, 1973. 
 The King's Indian, 1974. 
 October Light, 1976. 
 In the Suicide Mountains, 1977. 
 Freddy's Book, 1980. 
 The Art of Living and Other Stories, 1981.
 Mickelsson's Ghosts, 1982. 
 Stillness and Shadows, 1986.

Biography
 The Life and Times of Chaucer, 1977.

Children's stories
 Dragon, Dragon (and Other Tales), 1975.
 Gudgekin The Thistle Girl (and Other Tales), 1976.
 The King of the Hummingbirds (and Other Tales), 1977.
 A Child's Bestiary, 1977.

Criticism and Instruction
 The Forms of Fiction, 1962.
 The Construction of the Wakefield Cycle, 1974.
 The Poetry of Chaucer, 1977.
 On Moral Fiction, 1978.
 On Becoming a Novelist, 1983.
 The Art of Fiction, 1983.
 On Writers and Writing, 1994. 

Translation
 The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet, 1965.
 The Alliterative Morte Arthure and Other Middle English Poems, 1971.
 Tengu Child (with Nobuko Tsukui), 1983.
 Gilgamesh (with John Maier, Richard A. Henshaw), 1984.

Other websites


"Audio Interview with John C. Gardner" , Wired for Books
"Thirty years Later: A Conversation on John Gardner (with Joel Gardner). March 2012.  
Audio interview of John Gardner by Stephen Banker, circa 1978

Category:1933 births
Category:1982 deaths
Category:Road accident deaths in the United States
Category:Writers from New York (state)