Febary 24, 2012 Novelist William Gay died at his home Hohenwald, Tennsee, last night, at age sixty-eight. Among the most crilly acclaimed of his generatn of Southern wrers, Gay began his public wrg reer famoly late, when, at age fifty-five, his first short story was published The Geia Review. His first novel, The
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWilliam Gay Di at 70; Wrer Tied to TennseeFeb. 29, 2012William Gay, a self-tght novelist om ral Tennsee who emerged om obscury his late 50s wh crilly praised books the Southern Gothic style, died last Thursday at his home, a log b Hohenwald, southwt of Nashville.
Gay’s most recent publisher, MacAdam/Cage.The son of a sharecropper who spent much of his workg life blue-llar jobs, Mr. Gay wrote about stic Tennsee wh an si observer’s eye for lol lor and a hyperbolist’s light regnal idsyncrasi.