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John Gardner, author of On Moral Fiction to be published by Basic Books on April 19. The best-selling novelist, winner of the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, measures contemporary American authors--Mailer, Doctorow, Didion, Vonnegut, Heller, Updike, Cheever, and others--by the highest standards of their art and finds them, for the most part, lacking. Mr. Gardner's recent works are October Light (1976) and In the Suicide Mountains (1977).