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William H. Gass in 2013.
Michael Lionstar
William H. Gass
Died on December 6, 2017 at age 93
A proudly postmodern author, Mr. Gass valued form and language more than literary conventions like plot and character and had a broad influence on other experimental writers of the 1960s, ’70s and beyond.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.