John Gardner (American writer)

John Champlin Gardner Jr. (July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor. He was known for his novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.

Gardner was killed in a motorcycle accident in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, aged 49.

• The Resurrection, 1966.
• The Wreckage of Agathon, 1970.
• Grendel, 1971.
• The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972.
• Jason and Medeia, 1973.
• Nickel Mountain: A Pastoral Novel, 1973.
• The King's Indian, 1974.
• October Light, 1976.
• In the Suicide Mountains, 1977.
• Freddy's Book, 1980.
• The Art of Living and Other Stories, 1981.
• Mickelsson's Ghosts, 1982.
• Stillness and Shadows, 1986.

• The Life and Times of Chaucer, 1977.

• Dragon, Dragon (and Other Tales), 1975.
• Gudgekin The Thistle Girl (and Other Tales), 1976.
• The King of the Hummingbirds (and Other Tales), 1977.
• A Child's Bestiary, 1977.

• The Forms of Fiction, 1962.
• The Construction of the Wakefield Cycle, 1974.
• The Poetry of Chaucer, 1977.
• On Moral Fiction, 1978.
• On Becoming a Novelist, 1983.
• The Art of Fiction, 1983.
• On Writers and Writing, 1994.

• The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet, 1965.
• The Alliterative Morte Arthure and Other Middle English Poems, 1971.
• Tengu Child (with Nobuko Tsukui), 1983.
• Gilgamesh (with John Maier, Richard A. Henshaw), 1984.

• "The Arch and the Abyss: A John C. Gardner Resource". Genesee Community College. April 9, 2007. Archived from the original on May 9, 2010. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
• Paul F. Ferguson, John R. Maier, Sara Matthiessen, Frank McConnell (Spring 1979). "John Gardner, The Art of Fiction No. 73". The Paris Review. Spring 1979 (75).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• "Audio Interview with John C. Gardner" Archived 2011-01-02 at the Wayback Machine, Wired for Books
• "Thirty years Later: A Conversation on John Gardner (with Joel Gardner). March 2012. [1] Archived 2013-05-30 at the Wayback Machine
• Audio interview of John Gardner by Stephen Banker, circa 1978