“Every crease is a story.”

Author
1933–1982
John Champlin Gardner Jr. was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.
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Grendel
John Gardner, 1971

Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
Lawrence E. Berliner, Arnold Adoff & others, 1991

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman & others, 2002

The Art of Fiction
John Gardner, 1984

On Becoming a Novelist
John Gardner, 1983

On Moral Fiction
John Gardner, 1978

Conversations with John Gardner
John Gardner, 1990

Dragon, Dragon, and Other Tales
John Gardner, 1975

Gilgamesh
John Gardner, John R. Maier & others, 1984

The Forms of Fiction
John Gardner, 1962

In the Suicide Mountains
John Gardner, 1977

October Light
John Gardner, 1976

The Sunlight Dialogues
John Gardner, 1972

On Writers and Writing
John Gardner, 1994

Sunlight Dialogue
John Gardner, 1973

Jason and Medeia
John Gardner, 1973

The Art of Living
John Gardner, 1981

A Child's Bestiary
John Gardner, 1977

Gudgekin, the Thistle Girl, and Other Tales
John Gardner, 1976

The King of the Hummingbirds, and Other Tales
John Gardner, 1977

Freddy's Book
John Gardner, 1980
Stillness and Shadows
John Gardner, 1987

MSS
John Gardner & Liz Rosenberg, 1980

La symphonie des spectres
John Gardner, 2012

The alliterative Morte Arthure
John Gardner, 1971

The Best American Short Stories 1982
John Gardner, 1982

Frankenstein
John Gardner, 1979
Mickelsson's Ghosts Part 1 of 2
John Gardner, 1982
Rumpelstiltskin
John Gardner, 1980
Sunlight Dialogues Part 1 of 2
John Gardner, 1972
Sunlight Dialogues Part 2 of 2
John Gardner, 1972

Nicholas Vergette, 1923-1974
John Gardner, 1978
Sḳorpyus
John Gardner & Yifʻah Garbov, 1990

The construction of Christian poetry in Old English
John Gardner, 1975

Lies! Lies! Lies!
John Gardner, 1999
Oktoberlys
John Gardner, 1979
The old men
John Gardner, 1958
Osenniĭ svet
John Gardner, 1981
Poems
John Gardner, 1978

Stillness ; and, Shadows
John Gardner, 1986
The thistle
John Gardner, 1982
Vlemk, the Box-painter
John Gardner, 1979

The poetry of Chaucer
John Gardner, 1977

Nickel Mountain
John Gardner, 1963

The Wreckage of Agathon
John Gardner, 1970

The Life and Times of Chaucer
John Gardner, 1977

The resurrection
John Gardner, 1966

The King's Indian
John Gardner, 1974
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