John Gardner
John Champlin Gardner Jr. was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.
Works (42)
Grendel
1974
Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
The Art of Fiction
1984
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
The art of fiction
1985
On Becoming a Novelist
On becoming a novelist
1983
On moral fiction
1978
Dragon, dragon, and other tales
1975
Conversations with John Gardner
1990
The life & times of Chaucer
1977
Gilgamesh
On writers and writing
1994
October Light
May 12, 1981
The forms of fiction
1962
In the suicide mountains
1977
Nickel mountain
1973
The Sunlight Dialogues
1974
Freddy's book
1980
Jason and Medeia
1973
The king of the hummingbirds, and other tales
1977
October light
1976
Mickelsson's Ghosts
1982
The art of living
1983
Sunlight Dialogue
1973
Freddy's Book
1981
A child's bestiary
1977
The king's Indian
1974
The construction of Christian poetry in Old English
1975
The Best American Short Stories 1982
The Wreckage of Agathon
1974
Complete Works of the Gawain Poet
June 1965
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: notes
1967
The wreckage of Agathon
1970
The alliterative Morte Arthure
The construction of the Wakefield cycle
1974
Nickel Mountain
January 1963
The poetry of Chaucer
1977
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Lies! lies! lies!
1999
The Life and Times of Chaucer
November 17, 1977
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