Born
1933
Died
1982
Works
24
John Champlin Gardner Jr. was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.
Grendel
John Gardner
Nickel Mountain
The Sunlight Dialogues
Mickelssons Ghost
October Light
Freddy's Book
The Wreckage of Agathon
The King's Indian
Sunlight Dialogue
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
The Life and Times of Chaucer
The complete works of the Gawain-poet
The art of fiction
Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
On becoming a novelist
Jason and Medeia
The art of living
Dragon, dragon, and other tales
On moral fiction
On writers and writing
The resurrection
MSS
The forms of fiction
In the suicide mountains