Question: What author has won more National Book Critics Circle Awards, Lucy Maud Montgomery or William H. Gass?

Willie Perdomo is a Puerto Rican poet and children's book author.  He is the author of "The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon" (Penguin Poets, 2014), a National Book Critics Circle Awards finalist, "Where a Nickel Costs a Dime" (W. W. Norton & Company, a Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award finalist, 1996), "Postcards of El Barrio" (Isla Negra Press, 2002), and "Smoking Lovely" (Rattapallax Press, 2003), which received a PEN Beyond Margins Award.  His children's book, "Visiting Langston", received the Coretta Scott King Honor.  Perdomo was also the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2001 and 2009.  He is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and recently was a Woolrich Fellow in Creative Writing at Columbia University.  He is co-founder/publisher of Cypher Books, a VONA/Voices faculty member, and is currently an Instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy. <SEP>  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" (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.  His 1995 novel "The Tunnel" received the American Book Award. William Howard Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor.  His 2013 novel "Middle C" won the 2015 William Dean Howells Medal. <SEP>  The book was an immediate success.  The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Lucy Maud Montgomery {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942) published as L.M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with "Anne of Green Gables". <SEP> Gordon Edelstein is the Long Wharf Theatre’s Artistic Director.  In addition to his work on the world premiere of Athol Fugard’s "Have You Seen Us"? , Mr. Edelstein directed and adapted Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in Long Wharf Theatre’s 2009-10 season.  In addition, Edelstein directed "Coming Home" at Berkeley Rep and The Glass Menagerie starring Judith Ivey at Roundabout Theatre in New York City.  His recent productions of Arthur Miller’s "The Price" and Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (which he also adapted) were on numerous best of 2007 lists including the Wall Street Journal.  As a director, he has garnered three Connecticut Critics Circle Awards and during his tenure at Long Wharf Theatre, the theatre has produced world premieres by Paula Vogel, Athol Fugard, Craig Lucas, Julia Cho, Noah Haidle, Dael Orlandersmith, and Anna Deavere Smith.  Over the course of his career, he has also directed and/or produced premieres by Philip Glass, Arthur Miller, Paula Vogel, Donald Margulies, James Lapine, Charles Mee, Mac Wellman, and Martin McDonagh, among many others, and has directed an extremely diverse body of work from Sophocles to Pinter, and from Shakespeare to Beckett.  Under his artistic leadership, Long Wharf Theatre has received 14 additional Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, including six best actor or actress awards in plays that he directed.  He was also given the organization’s Tom Killen Award, given annually to an individual who has made an indelible impact on the Connecticut theatrical landscape.  Edelstein has directed countless plays and workshops for Long Wharf Theatre including the world premieres of BFE (transfer to Playwrights Horizons), The Day the Bronx Died (transfer to NY and London), A Dance Lesson, and The Times, as well as We Won’t Pay!  We Won’t Pay! , A New War, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Anna Christie, The Front Page, and Mourning Becomes Electra, starring Jane Alexander.  Prior to assuming artistic leadership of Long Wharf Theatre, Edelstein helmed Seattle’s ACT Theatre for five years.