William Gay’s Followers (537)

Add New
Videos

Bookmark with Don Noble: William Gay (2012)

Add a comment

William Gay

Born

in Hohenwald, Tennessee, The United States

October 27, 1941

Died

February 23, 2012

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

Influences

Cormac McCarthy, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor ...more

edit data

William Elbert Gay was the author of the novels Provinces of Night, The Long Home, and Twilight and the short story collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down. He was the winner of the 1999 William Peden Award and the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize and the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Combine Editions
William Gay’s books

Average rating: 4.0 · 15,086 ratings · 1,951 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	Provinces of Night 4.20 avg rating — 2,929 ratings — published 2000 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twilight 3.95 avg rating — 3,072 ratings — published 2006 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Home 4.03 avg rating — 2,786 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories 4.31 avg rating — 2,167 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Sister Death 3.25 avg rating — 1,623 ratings — published 2015 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Country 4.03 avg rating — 636 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wittgenstein's Lolita and The Iceman 4.07 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time Done Been Won't Be No More by William Gay, J.M. White (Compiler) 4.25 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fugitives of the Heart 4.34 avg rating — 111 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories from the Attic 4.20 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by William Gay…

Quotes by William Gay (?)

“There’s folks you just don’t need. You’re better off without em. Your life is just a little better because they ain’t in it.”
― William Gay

tags: letting-go-of-negative-people, toxic-people

96 likes

“He wanted her the rest of his life, and failing that, he wanted permission to walk along beside her while she lived it.”
― William Gay, Provinces of Night

20 likes

“She was a page torn from a calendar, a year folded neatly and laid aside in some place you never look.”
― William Gay, Twilight

19 likes

See all William Gay's quotes »

Polls

What shall we read in September 2021? Books published after 1980.

When These Mountains Burn, by David Joy

17 votes 35.4%

Oral History, by Lee Smith

11 votes 22.9%

Sinners of Sanction County, by Charles Dodd White

9 votes 18.8%

Fugitives of the Heart, by William Gay

5 votes 10.4%

Valentine, by Elizabeth Wetmore

4 votes 8.3%

A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership, by Wendell Berry

2 votes 4.2%

48 total votes

comments and details

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Seasonal Read...: Fall Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC!	2251	792	Nov 30, 2011 09:05PM
Crazy Challenge C...: * R2: Team Six - Page Chewers	308	115	Nov 17, 2012 02:40AM