Mary Gordon
Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8, 1949) is an American writer and Macintosh Professor of English at Barnard College.
Born on Long Island, New York in the US, Mary Catherine Gordon attended Barnard College (BA 1971) and Syracuse University (MA 1973) and has taught at Poughkeepsie and Amherst colleges.
Writing fiction which often reflects he Catholicism and interest in feminism, her first novel, Final Payments (1978), is about a young girl’s attempt to remake her life after caring for her terminally ill father for eleven years and her sense of self-sacrifice.
The Company of Women (1980) studies a conservative priest’s influence on the lives of several women, while Men and Angels (1985) concerns the relationships forged between women and men.
Novels
Final Payments (1978)
The Company of Women (1980)
Men and Angels (1985)
The Other Side (1989)
Spending (1998)
Pearl (2005)
Non Fiction
The Shadow Man: A daughter’s Search For Her Father (1996)
Seeing Through Places: Reflections on Geography and Identity (2000)
Circling My Mother: A Memoir (2007)
Biography
Joan of Arc (2000)
Mary Gordon
Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8, 1949) is an American writer and Macintosh Professor of English at Barnard College.
Born on Long Island, New York in the US, Mary Catherine Gordon attended Barnard College (BA 1971) and Syracuse University (MA 1973) and has taught at Poughkeepsie and Amherst colleges.
Writing fiction which often reflects he Catholicism and interest in feminism, her first novel, Final Payments (1978), is about a young girl’s attempt to remake her life after caring for her terminally ill father for eleven years and her sense of self-sacrifice.
The Company of Women (1980) studies a conservative priest’s influence on the lives of several women, while Men and Angels (1985) concerns the relationships forged between women and men.
Novels
Final Payments (1978)
The Company of Women (1980)
Men and Angels (1985)
The Other Side (1989)
Spending (1998)
Pearl (2005)
Non Fiction
The Shadow Man: A daughter’s Search For Her Father (1996)
Seeing Through Places: Reflections on Geography and Identity (2000)
Circling My Mother: A Memoir (2007)
Biography
Joan of Arc (2000)
Mary Gordon
