Prize-winning author-critic William Gass dead at 93

New York, Dec 7 (AP) Award-winning novelist and criticWilliam Gass has died. He was 93.Gass died yesterday at his home in St Louis, publisherAlfr...

New York, Dec 7 (AP) Award-winning novelist and criticWilliam Gass has died. He was 93.

Gass died yesterday at his home in St Louis, publisherAlfred A. Knopf announced. No cause of death was immediatelyavailable.

A leading experimental writer of the 1960s and '70s, Gasswrote influential works of fiction such as "Omensetter's Luck"and won numerous literary prizes for his works of criticism.

He was a longtime St Louis resident who taught at theUniversity of Washington and even earned a star on the city'sWalk of Fame. (AP)NSA.

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