William Gay Biography

William Gay was born in Tennessee in 1939. He started writing as a teen and wrote continuously until his death in 2012. During this time he published the novels The Long Home, Provinces of Night, and Twilight, as well as the short work collections I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, Wittgenstein's Lolita, and Time Don Been Won't Be No More.

Following Gay's death, a large body of unpublished manuscripts were discovered. Of those works the novels Little Sister Death, Stoneburner, The Lost Country, and Fugitives of the Heart were edited by the William Gay Archive, directed by J.M. White. The final posthumous book, Stories from the Attic, a collection of short works and fragments, was released in 2022.

For a more complete biography of William Gay by J.M. White, please visit the William Gay Archive.