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David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist. [1] [2] His works have been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize . Education. Gates obtained his B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1972. [3] Career.
David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist. His first novel, Jernigan (1991), about a dysfunctional one-parent family, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1992 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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David Gates has 65 books on Goodreads with 40185 ratings. David Gates’s most popular book is Jernigan.
Jernigan is the 1991 debut novel by David Gates. The book received widespread critical acclaim, drawing comparisons to Richard Yates, Joseph Heller, and Frederick Exley. Jernigan was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
Jan 27, 1998 · In this comic, fiercely compassionate novel, David Gates, whose first novel Jernigan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, sends his protagonist on a visceral journey to the dark side of suburban masculinity, explores the claims youth makes on middle age, and the tenacious --at times perverse--power of love to assert itself.
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Jun 1, 2007 · David Gates started writing fiction when he was thirty-three, on a commuter train from Connecticut to New York. He wrote two long novels and some short stories, but wasn’t published until he finished Jernigan, a blackly comic novel about a single alcoholic father.
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