John Gardner
American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor (1933–1982)
Biography
John Gardner was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor. Born in Batavia, New York, in 1933, he wrote the 1971 novel Grendel, which retells the Beowulf myth from the monster's perspective. He died in 1982.
Occupation
John Gardner is recorded as a non-fiction writer, a essayist, a novelist, a children's writer, a literary critic, a journalist, a university teacher, a biographer, a translator and a writer, born in New York (1933–1982).
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