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Gurganus at Yaddo, 1974. Photo courtesy Becket Logan
Allan Gurganus’s prose exemplifies Evelyn Waugh’s belief that writing, all writing, must be regarded as an exercise in the fresh use of language. In his best-selling debut in 1989, the behemoth showstopper
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (it won the Sue Kaufman Prize and was adapted into both a TV film and a Broadway show); his romping masterwork about
AIDS,
The Practical Heart (2001) and
Local Souls (2013); and two collections of stories,
White People (1991) and the new
Uncollected Stories (2021), Gurganus has proved that he worships at the altar of the word with an intensity unique among contemporary American fiction writers. ....

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