Please answer the following question: Facts: - imagesize: 200px - period: 1959 -- present - notableworks: '' texts '' , '' middle c '' the tunnel '' , '' a temple of - birth name: william howard gass - genre: creative nonfiction , metafiction - birth date: 30 july 1924 - movement: postmodernism , metafiction - nationality: american - birth place: fargo , north dakota , united states - occupation: short-story writer , novelist , essayist , critic Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william h. gass .
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william howard gass -lrb- born july 30 , 1924 -rrb- is an american novelist , short-story writer , essayist , critic , and former philosophy professor .he has written three novels , three collections of short stories , a collection of novellas , and seven volumes of essays , three of which have won national book critics circle award prizes and one of which , '' a temple of texts '' -lrb- 2006 -rrb- , won the truman capote award for literary criticism .his 1995 novel '' the tunnel '' received the american book award .his 2013 novel '' middle c '' won the 2015 william dean howells medal .