William H. Gass has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the first PEN/Nabokov Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, a Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Among his many books are Omensetter's Luck: A Novel; The Tunnel; Finding a Form: Essays; In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories; and Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation. He lives in St. Louis.