William Gay
William Gay (Waterhouse PR Visiting Writer) is the author of four works of fiction: Provinces of the Night, The Long Home, Twilight, and I Hate to See the Evening Sun Go Down. New York Times book reviewer Tom Earley placed Gay in the company of Larry Brown and Cormac McCarthy. Gay was named a 2007 USA Ford Foundation Fellow and awarded a $50,000 grant by United States Artists, a public charity that supports and promotes the work of American artists.
For more on William Gay, see
- "William Gay offers a piercing portrait of a vanishing rural culture," an interview by Alden Mudge at Book Page
- An interview by Knowles Adkisson at Oxford American
- "Inventing Tennessee's own Yoknapatawpha County," an interview with Clay Risen of Chapter 16
- "Positively William Gay," an interview by Nashville Arts
- Book excerpt from The Lost Country at Chapter 16
- His short story, "I Hate to See the Evening Sun Go Down" at Bold Type
- Book review of Twilight at BookReporter
- William Gay Facebook Group
- Wikipedia article
- Video recording of William Gay reading from Provinces of the Night (see below)
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