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| | HVWC - A. M. Homes and David Gates |
 | | David Gates is the author of Jernigan (Knopf, 1991), a novel short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize and called by novelist Joseph Heller, "a sizzler of a novel, a whirlwind," and of Preston Falls (Knopf, 1998), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and about which The New York Times said, "Beautifully written... |
 | | Gates (has a) pitch-perfect ear for contemporary speech." His short stories have appeared in such national magazines as Esquire, GQ, Grand Street, Triquarterly, and anthologized in Best American Short Stories and the O. |
 | | A native of Clinton, Connecticut, David Gates studied English at the University of Connecticut and was a lecturer in the English department at the University of Virginia from 1975-1977, and was an instructor at Harvard University in 1977. |
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