What year did the author of The Tunnel win the William Dean Howells Medal?
The Tunnel (novel) The Tunnel is William H. Gass's 1995 "magnum opus" that took 26 years to write and earned him the American Book Award of 1996. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award.
Edwin O'Connor Edwin O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel "The Edge of Sadness" (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his novels concerned the Irish-American experience and often dealt with the lives of politicians and priests.