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William Gay

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William Gay

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1941-10-27 （Hohenwald, Tennessee）
Died
2012-02-23 （Hohenwald, Tennessee） age 70
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Hohenwald, Tennessee → New York City → Chicago → Lewis County, Tennessee

Career

Occupations
novelist, short story writer, essayist, carpenter, drywall hanger, house painter, United States Navy sailor
Active Years
1998-2012
Influenced By
William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, Larry Brown, Erskine Caldwell

Awards

James A. Michener Memorial Prize
1999
Work: The Long Home
Result: 受賞
USA Ford Foundation Fellow
2007
Organization: United States Artists
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Long Home

1999 Southern Gothic

A story of violence and poverty in rural Tennessee.

coming-of-ageviolencemoral dilemmas
Adaptations
  • [Film] The Long Home / James Franco

Provinces of Night

2000 Southern Gothic

A family saga involving Tennessee Valley Authority land condemnation.

familyland condemnationSouthern life
Adaptations
  • [Film] Bloodworth (2010)

I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down

2002 Short story collection

Collection of stories set in the South.

plain folkviolence

Twilight

2006 Southern Gothic

Story of a kinky undertaker hiring a hitman.

deathviolence

Bibliography

  • The Long Home (1999)
  • Provinces of Night (2000)
  • I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down (2002)
  • Wittgenstein's Lolita/The Iceman (2006)
  • Twilight (2006)
  • Time Done Been Won't Be No More: Collected Prose (2010)
  • Little Sister Death (2015, posthumous)
  • Stoneburner (2018, posthumous)
  • The Lost Country (2018, posthumous)
  • Fugitives of the Heart (2021, posthumous)
  • Stories from the Attic (2022, posthumous)

Adaptations

  • Bloodworth (film adaptation of Provinces of Night, 2010)
  • The Long Home (film adaptation announced, dir. James Franco, unreleased)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Southern Gothicrealisticold-fashioned authenticity
Recurring Motifs
rural South 1940s-50scoming-of-ageviolencepovertyplain folkbootleggers

Health

  • heart attack
    2012年
    Cause of death

Legacy

Known as a Southern Gothic novelist from Tennessee, with posthumous publications continuing his legacy.

Trivia

  • Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War.
  • Began writing at age 15 but did not publish until 1998.