Gilbert Sorrentino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gilbert Sorrentino

American writer

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1929

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 18-May-2006

Profession: writer, poet, university teacher, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27, 1929 – May 18, 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and editor.In over twenty-five works of fiction and poetry, Sorrentino explored the comic and formal possibilities of language and literature.
His insistence on the primacy of language and his forays into metafiction mark him as a postmodernist, but he is also known for his ear for American speech and his attention to the particularities of place, especially of his native Brooklyn.