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William Gay

(1943 - 2012)

William Gay was the author of the novels Provinces of Night, The Long Home, and Twilight and the short story collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down. He is the winner of the 1999 William Peden Award and the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize and the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery

Novels

   The Long Home (1999)
   Provinces of Night (2000)
   Twilight (2006)
   Little Sister Death (2015)
   Stoneburner (2017)
   The Lost Country (2018)
   Fugitives of the Heart (2021)

Collections

   I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down (2002)
   Wittgenstein's Lolita (2006)
   Stories from the Attic (2022)

Anthologies edited

The Alumni Grill (2004) (with Suzanne Kingsbury)

Books containing stories by William Gay

The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories (2014)
The First Ten Years
edited by
Otto Penzler

Psychos (2012)
Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane
edited by
John M Skipp

The Best American Noir of the Century (2010)
edited by
James Ellroy and Otto Penzler

More books

William Gay recommends

Bone Dogs (2010)
Roger Alan Skipper
"Skipper... brings both protagonists and environment to life in powerful language that ultimately becomes a sort of hard-edged poetry."

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