Gilgamesh (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780394740898)

John Gardner was accorded wide praise for his works of imagination, of criticism, and of scholarship. He was born in 1933 in Batavia, New York. Among the universities at which he taught are Oberlin, San Francisco State, Northwestern, Southern Illinois, Bennington, and the State University of New York--Bennington. The Art of Fiction was completed before his death in 1982.