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William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence

William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence

Photographs of Gass

For more photographs and portraits of Gass, see the Fifty New Acquisitions: Photographs and Artwork section.

High School Portrait of William H. Gass

William H. Gass during World War II

William H. Gass being painted by Philip Guston at Yaddo, 1969

Mary and William H. Gass

Heide Ziegler, Jack Hawkes, William H. Gass, and John Barth at an American-German conference in Germany, July 1979

William H. Gass reading a newspaper

"On Being Photographed"

Walter Abish and William H. Gass in Graz, Austria

William H. Gass introduction to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, May 18, 1983

William H. Gass, Robert Coover, Mary Gass, Walter Abish, Ceile Gelb, and Shelly Barth in New York, circa 1983-84

William H. Gass teaching

William H. Gass with Allen Ginsberg at the Chinese Writer's Association conference in China, 1984

William H. Gass at the Great Wall of China, 1984

William H. Gass, Allan Ginsberg, and Arthur Miller in an elevator in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1985

Photographs of William H. Gass at Desk

Photographs of William H. Gass with Book

William H. Gass, Washington University campus, 1980s

William H. Gass posing as Pagliaccio

Reflection of William H. Gass taking photographs, Iowa 1989

William H. Gass

William H. Gass giving a commencement speech for the School of Architecture at Washington University, May 17, 1991

William H. Gass speaking at the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony

St. Louis Walk of Fame induction ceremony, May 17, 1998

William H. Gass at Clayton Studios during the recording of The Tunnel

William H. and Mary Gass, June 2005

Unspeakable Practices IV: Celebrating 25 Years of Conjunctions, Brown University, October 4, 2006

William H. Gass holding artwork by Buzz Spector

William H. Gass working at home, 2013

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