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Biography

Name: John Gardner
Birth Date: July 21, 1933
Death Date: September 14, 1982
Place of Birth: Batavia, New York, United States
Place of Death: Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Author, Educator

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Biography of John (Champlin) Gardner, Jr.
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John Champlin Gardner, Jr., novelist, epic poet, and scholar, was born in Batavia, New York, on 21 July 1933 to John Champlin and Priscilla Jones Gardner. As a boy he lived in Batavia, attended the local schools, and worked on his father's farm. His...
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Biography of John Gardner
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A vastly prolific author of thirty-five books in a career spanning only twenty-five years, John Gardner penned novels, criticism, short stories, works for young readers, a biography of Chaucer, plays, and libretti. Best known for his novels Grendel,...


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John Gardner Information
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John Champlin Gardner, Jr. (July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982) was an American novelist and university teacher. He was a popular and controversial figure until his death in a motorcycle accident at the age of...


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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
John Gardner
02/20/2002: 335 words, approx. 1 pages
00-00-0000 JOHN GARDNER -- MORE THAN ONE WAY TO ACCOMPLISH GOOD Date: 02-20-2002, Wednesday Section: OPINION Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star B Biographical: JOHN GARDNER WHEN JOHN Gardner resigned from President Lyndon Johnson's Cabinet in...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Gardner, John C.
12/14/2001: 357 words, approx. 1 pages
Gardner, John C. Friday, December 14, 2001 Gardner, John C. Age 79, of Juneau and formerly of Horicon. Died Thurs. Dec. 13, 2001 at Juneau Terrace. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Sat., Dec. 15, 2001 at 12 noon at...
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Bond, James Bond, returning in book form
7/11/2007: 358 words, approx. 1 pages
James Bond will soon be back, in bookstores. "Devil May Care," a novel written by British author Sebastian Faulks and authorized by the estate of the late Ian Fleming, is due to come out in 2008, the centennial of Fleming's birth.According to the Doubleday Broadway...
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Trooper zaps driver over speeding ticket
11/21/2007: 311 words, approx. 1 pages
Authorities are speeding up their investigation of a state trooper who zapped a motorist with a Taser now that video of the traffic stop has been posted on YouTube, the Utah Highway Patrol said Wednesday.The video, taken from Trooper John Gardner's patrol car, shows him...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Kathryn Vanspanckeren
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When one stands back to consider the shape of John Gardner's works as a whole, certain recurring "obsessive metaphors" or polysemous "figures" (in the terminology of Charles Mauron and the Russian Formalists) force themselves upon the imagination. One of the most resonant of these figures is the magician as artist or criminal. The figure involves the idea of a shaper—part magician, part storyteller—who purposely manipulates reality and therefore may either en...
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Critical Essay by Marilyn Arnold
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In a recent essay, [John Gardner] deplores the "shoddy morality of much of our fiction" and insists that "instruction is art's most basic function, whether or not it ought to be." Hence, a great responsibility rests on the artist to "seek positive moral values, provide models of goodness." "Fiction," Gardner says, "should spellbind and inspire, though it should not lie." Unlike Flannery O'Connor who was trying mainly to conv...
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Critical Essay by John Romano
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It is the interesting fate of "Freddy's Book" to follow John Gardner's critical essay "On Moral Fiction" on the ever-longer shelf of his books. Interesting because the new novel is a very enjoyable one, an entertainment high and bright, in every sense; and yet it can't expect to escape the dead-earnest question, is it moral? Its very structure—a novel within a novel, or rather, a fairytale-historical novella with a long fictional preface explaining how...
 


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