Author william gay

William Elbert Gay (October 27, – February 23, ) was an American novelist, and author of short stories and essays. Gay was born in Hohenwald, Tennessee. After high school, Gay joined the United States Navy and served during the Vietnam War. William Gay is well known for his fiction but he is also widely published with his essays, mostly dealing with music, and his memoirs.

This is the first collection that includes his nonfiction prose. Complete order of William Gay books in Publication Order and Chronological Order. William Gay, a self-taught novelist from rural Tennessee who emerged from obscurity in his late 50s with critically praised books in the Southern Gothic style, died last Thursday at his home. William wrote Southern Gothic, a style known for evocative prose about dark subjects—grifters and golden fields, hard earth, and eternal sky, the devil at the crossroads.

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