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| 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.
6097 words, approx. 20.3 pages
 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 moth...
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Biography of John Gardner
4624 words, approx. 15.4 pages
 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, The...


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Mickelsson's Ghosts Information
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 Mickelsson's Ghosts is John Gardner's final novel of 1982. It follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. Mickelsson is driven, opinionated, probably a drunk, definitely bankrupt, and...


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Ghost World
05/18/2003: 745 words, approx. 3 pages SECOND GLANCE By Jodi Picoult Atria. 425 pp. $25 If a man of medieval times were to wake up in our world, he would be stunned and frightened by the things that he would see: people flying through the air in...



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Critical Essay by Selden Rodman
534 words, approx. 2 pages
 To judge from John Gardner's 10th novel [Mickelsson's Ghosts], published shortly before his death last month in a motorcycle accident at age 49, he believed in ghosts. Also in witches, hex signs and divergent spectral assemblies, such as a government-supported group of Mafia landfillers and a Mormon-affiliated SS troop called the Sons of Dan. Although Peter Mickelsson, Gardner's primary witness to these questionable incarnations, is a philosophy instructor who might well be cast as ...


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Mickelsson's Ghosts by John Gardner | |
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About 46 pages (13,831 words) in 5 products |
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