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Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon.
Mary Gordon
American author
Also known as: Mary Catherine Gordon
Quick Facts
- In full:
- Mary Catherine Gordon
- Born:
- December 8, 1949, Long Island, New York, U.S. (age 75)
- Notable Works:
- “Circling My Mother”
- “Final Payments”
- “Good Boys and Dead Girls and Other Essays”
- “Men and Angels”
- “Payback”
- “Pearl”
- “Seeing Through Places”
- “Spending”
- “Spiritual Quests: The Art and Craft of Religious Writing”
- “Temporary Shelter”
- “The Company of Women”
- “The Liar’s Wife”
- “The Love of My Youth”
- “The Other Side”
- “The Rest of Life”
- “The Shadow Man”
- “The Stories of Mary Gordon”
- “There Your Heart Lies”
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)