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Mary Gordon
American author
Mary Gordon (born December 8, 1949, Long Island, New York, U.S.) is an American writer whose novels and short fiction deal with growing up as a Roman Catholic and with the nature of goodness and piety as expressed within that tradition. Raised in an observant Catholic family (her father was a convert from Judaism), Gordon attended Barnard College, New York City (B.A., 1971), and Syracuse (New York) University (M.A., 1973). Her first novel, Final Payments (1978), was a critical and popular success. The protagonist, Isabel, is 30 before she leaves home, having cared for her domineering father for 11 years ...(100 of 303 words)