William Gaddis Writer

William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist.The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.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.Gaddis is widely considered one of the first and most important American postmodern writers.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Gaddis William Thomas Jr. (full name)
Birth date	December 29, 1922
Birth place	New York City
Date of death	December 16, 1998
Place of death	East Hampton (town) New York
Education	Harvard University

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Writer

Career start	1955
Career end	1998
award	National Book Award
influenced	Jack Kerouac Stanley Elkin Thomas Pynchon William H. Gass David Foster Wallace Jonathan Franzen Don DeLillo Joseph McElroy
influenced by	Fyodor Dostoyevsky T. S. Eliot Evelyn Waugh Nikolai Gogol Thomas Bernhard
movement	Postmodern literature
notable work	J R A Frolic of His Own The Recognitions