The are some well-known facts William Gay’s official bgraphy: that he lived a b the woods, that he didn’t e email, that he worked nstctn his whole life until someone fally noticed he was a great wrer. But the facts tell only part of the story. For rears and wrers, at
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- WILLIAM GAY DO SIGNATURE CELEBRATN AFTER PICK-SIX
- WILLIAM GAY REF EXCSIVE CELEBRATN ON PICK-6 VS. BENGALS
- CELEBRATG WILLIAM GAY
- WILLIAM GAY’S PICK-SIX CELEBRATN WAS SPECTACULARLY OVER THE TOP
- PTSBURGH CB WILLIAM GAY CELEBRAT PICK-SIX FOR A FULL 60 SENDS
WILLIAM GAY DO SIGNATURE CELEBRATN AFTER PICK-SIX
* william gay celebration *
Steelers rnerback William Gay got his send pick-six of the season agast Matt Ryan and the Falns. Early the send quarter, Gay picked off Ryan's pass down the middle and easily ran back 52 yards while the Falns tripped and fell over themselv. Then, Gay h his signature touchdown celebratn.
William Gay picks . Steelers veteran William Gay has a knack for pick-6s..
Gay was flagged on the play for excsive celebratn... You nnot excsively celebrate anymore than William Gay excsively celebrat his pick 6. William Gay and Joey Porter celebrate his latt pick-6.
WILLIAM GAY REF EXCSIVE CELEBRATN ON PICK-6 VS. BENGALS
The are some well-known facts William Gay’s official bgraphy: that he lived a b the woods, that he didn’t e email, that he worked nstctn his whole life until someone fally noticed he was a great wrer. William Gay was born a wrer.
As a late-life lerary succs who didn’t attend creative-wrg programs or pay for profsnal workshops, Gay symbolized the hop of stgglg wrers, pecially ral on. William Gay’s ath last week of heart failure sent tremors through the muny of wrers and rears Tennsee and beyond, people who loved him as a iend and as a wrer.
We have asked some of those who knew Gay, ways large and small, to send their stori.
CELEBRATG WILLIAM GAY
Today we also proudly publish here another excerpt om William Gay’s forthg novel, The Lost Country. Gay provid the excerpts 2009, as panns to a long terview he gave Chapter 16, but we chose to publish only one of them at the time, holdg the others rerve to n nnectn wh some other news Gay’s life—a big award, perhaps, or the announcement of a publitn date for the new book.
We clu one of them here today, regnizg that the bt person to provi the last word on William Gay’s geo e of language and profound unrstandg of human nature is William Gay himself. Travelg wh William Gay always volv a certa amount of tours. William Gay did not climb down om his ladr and, havg never read a book, ci he was gog to wre one.
WILLIAM GAY’S PICK-SIX CELEBRATN WAS SPECTACULARLY OVER THE TOP
Every obuary I’ve read about William Gay—as was the se wh every newspaper or magaze profile I read about William while he was alive—featur his time the rpentry tras, particularly as a drywall hanger, almost as promently as featur his prodig gifts and acplishments as a wrer.
Who knows, maybe five hundred years om now, some misguid but clamoro band of send-tier scholars will waste time batg who really wrote the books of William Gay bee, God knows, a drywall hanger om Hohenwald, Tennsee, wh ltle formal tn, would have been pable of dog so himself. Potg out that William Gay never went to llege is as els an exercise as potg out that Bill Gat never fished.
I once asked William Gay what was like to be a famo thor a small town like Hohenwald. But how many of would have the perseverance, the mment to art of a William Gay? At nferenc and ftivals, I liked to thk of William Gay as Home Base a strange childhood game of tag; we uld always fd each other and lose all the disfort of tryg to rema rdial to strangers.
PTSBURGH CB WILLIAM GAY CELEBRAT PICK-SIX FOR A FULL 60 SENDS
The first words William Gay ever said to me occurred what appeared to be a ballroom si the public library Nashville.