John Gardner

The time period and social caste help to determine the ways in which such diverse protagonists as a prison warden, a minister, and an insane queen deal with tragic ironies of human experience

Mickelsson's Ghosts is John Gardner's final novel, published in 1982. It follows Peter Mickelsson, former football player and current Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. Mickelsson is driven, opinionated, probably a drunk, definitely bankrupt, and perhaps going completely mad. During his personal …

On Moral Fiction is a book-length essay by the American novelist John Gardner published in 1978. In this work, Gardner attacks what he sees as contemporary literature's lack of morality, which he calls the highest purpose of art and defines in the book. According to Gardner, morality is not an arbitrary construct of …

Nickel mountain is a novel written by John Gardner.