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.
Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , commonly ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For "Gravity's Rainbow", Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.