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William Gay was born in
Hohenwald, Tennessee
in 1943. He has spent most of his life working
as a carpenter and living in the Hohenwald, but at the age
of 55, Gay made his publishing debut with a short story
in the Georgia Review. The story,
I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down,
with its patient rhythm of measured words, quickly caught
the attention of readers and publishers alike.
In 1999, Gay published his first novel,
The Long Home
and New York Times Book Reviewer Tom Earley placed
Gay in the company of Larry Brown and Cormac McCarthy.
Earley wrote, "At his best, Gay writes with the wisdom and
patience of a man who has witnessed hard times and learned
that panic or hedging won't make better times come any
sooner; he looks upon beauty and violence with equal measure
and makes an accurate accounting of how much of each the
human heart contains."
His second novel,
Provinces of Night, is a dark saga of the Bloodworth
clan. His work is steeped in the tradition of southern
gothic and filled with the cadences and landscape that makes
up this part of the south. His second novel led to careful
comparisons to William
Faulkner. His work is darkly humorous and deeply
mature.
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