William Gaddis

William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist.[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaddis

The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005[3] and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[4] A collection of his essays was published posthumously as The Rush for Second Place (2002). The Letters of William Gaddis was published by Dalkey Archive Press in February 2013.

Awards and honors

National Book Awards (for J R (1975) and A Frolic of His Own (1994))
The MacArthur Foundation’s "Genius Award" (1982);
Election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1989);
The Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement (1993).

Family

• Father: William Thomas Gaddis
• Mother: Edith Charles
• Spouse: Patricia Black
• Spouse: Judith Thompson
• Partner: Muriel Murphy Oxenberg
• Children 2

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William Gaddis as a young boy at the beach, pulling a toy car

Source: William Gaddis Papers (MSS049) - Box 153, Folder 612.2 < link >

References

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaddis
2. Alberts, Crystal (August 11, 2005). "William Gaddis, 1922–1998. American author". Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections. Archived from the original on September 12, 2004. Retrieved June 7, 2010.

• Gussow, Mel (December 17, 1998). "William Gaddis, 75, Innovative Author Of Complex, Demanding Novels, Is Dead". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 15, 2018. Retrieved June 7, 2010.

1. His life and work are the subject of a comprehensive website, The Gaddis Annotations, which has been noted in at least one academic journal as a superior example of scholarship using new media resources.[19] < http://www.williamgaddis.org/
2. Gaddis's papers are collected at Washington University in St. Louis. < link >
3. The first book-length biography, Joseph Tabbi's Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis, was published by Northwestern University Press in May 2015. < GoogleBooks >
4. “Donald Barthelme, William Gaddis, and Muriel Oxenberg Murphy at a party celebrating William H. Gass's election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1983,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed May 9, 2024, http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/3891.