Awards
Some highlights of awards Gass has won: Doctors of Humane Letters from five colleges and universities, Rockefeller and Guggenheim grants for fiction, four Puschart Prizes, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction and Merit for Fiction, numerous Best American Essays, three National Book Critics Circle Awards for Criticism, a Pen/Nabakov Award, an American Book Award, and a Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. You can find the complete list at readinggass.org. Most of the items here are on loan from William and Mary Gass.
Washington University Class of 1971 Favorite Faculty Member award
Washington University Founders Day 1974
Pushcart Prize award for "I Wish You Wouldn't," 1975
The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Ceremonial program, May 21, 1975
The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit
National Book Critics Circle Award for Habitations of the Word, 1985
American Book Award for The Tunnel, 1996
National Book Critics Circle Award for Finding a Form, 1996
Selected video segments from the 1996 KETC A&E Awards program
Program for the 1997 Lannan Literary Awards
William H. Gass speaking at the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony