john c gardner

Does anyone still read John Gardner's Grendel and T. H. White's The Once and Future King? These two might have become relatively obscure (if they have) because they are revisionist treatments of Beowulf and Thomas Malory's Morte, works that (I suspect) are less often read than formerly...

This American writer (died 1982) was once well-known. Is there interest in discussing his work here? I've read Grendel and October Light, but it's almost 40 years ago since the last time I read the latter, and Grendel was back around 1972 or so. But my sense is that the man would be worth...

Had a teacher in college recommend Gardner's "Grendel" to me after he read a short story I wrote in '76. I was mostly reading Sci Fi and Fantasy up to that point, but he became one of my favorite authors from then on out. Especially liked his epic poem "Jason and Madea", "Freddy's Book" and...