News & Upcoming Events
- On June 4, National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" featured John Gardner's The Sunlight Dialogues in the first segment of their recommended summer reading series. You can listen to John Gardner's son Joel Gardner read an excerpt. The Sunlight Dialogues has been recently republished by New Directions with a new introduction by Charles Johnson.
- A new edition of Gardner's Nickel Mountain, with an introduction by William H. Gass, is forthcoming in Fall 2008 from New Directions.
Bibliographic Resources
Books by Gardner
Books about Gardner & His Work
Checklist of Secondary Sources
Miscellany Online
Gardner's Theatrical Works (compiled by Jan Quackenbush)
Library Special Collections
Register of the John Gardner Archive, containing manuscripts, etc., at the Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester. The archive description, part of a Special Collections page, includes a fascimile of the cover of Gardner's DuPauw University journal.
Folders 43-47 of the Nicholas Joost Papers (containing correspondence in Box 1) at the Lauinger Library's Special Collections, Georgetown University.
Folders 50-52 of the Kenneth Aguillard Atchity Collection (containing correspondance in Box 4) at the Lauinger Library's Special Collections, Georgetown University.
Latest Books
December, 2006: New Directions reissued The Sunlight Dialogues with a new introduction by Charles Johnson.
October 2005: New Directions reissued October Light with an introduction by Tom Bissell.
January 2005: "Rediscovering John Gardner: A Moral Writer in Search of His Legacy" by David M. Stanton was published in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers -- unfortunately an online version of the article is not available.
January, 2004: Barry Silesky's biography John Gardner: Literary Outlaw was published by Algonquin Books.
October, 2000: Susan Thornton's memoir On Broken Glass: Loving and Losing John Gardner was published by Carroll & Graf.
A limited edition of Gardner's poem "The Thistle" is available in a broadside edition. The non-profit John C. Gardner Appreciation page has ordering information.
Lies! Lies! Lies!, the journal Gardner kept at DuPauw U, is now available in hardcover and paperback editions. Both feature fascimiles of the original, handwritten entries as well typeset transcriptions. Ordering information is available at the non-profit John C. Gardner Appreciation Page.
John Gardner T-Shirt
Dragon design by Don Carmichael; Proceeds benefit the John Gardner Society, a non-profit organization sponsoring the Annual John Gardner Conference and the Annual John Gardner Festival.
Gardner Web Ring
The John C. Gardner Appreciation Page
Based in Batavia, NY (Gardner's hometown), sponsored by the John Gardner Society; Annual John Gardner Festival and Annual John Gardner Conference info, photos, and rare full-length online texts.Tom Fasano's site, featuring biographical information and excerpts from several of Gardner's most-praised novels as well as a discussion mailing list.
An Index to John Gardner's Grendel
Tom Murphy's site contains not only an index, but annotated terms, study questions, Grendel links, and "The Grendel Board" for discussion.
Yahoo! Clubs: johngardner · John Gardner - The Author of Grendel, Mickelsson's Ghosts, etc.
Ron Criss created this group "to provide a place for casual discussion of the works and life of the novelist John Gardner.
Yahoo! Clubs: jcgardner · John Gardner Discussion List
Adam Walter's Gardner discussion group and mailing list.