Mary Gordon is the author of seven novels, including Final Payments, Pearl, and The Love of My Youth; six works of nonfiction, including the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and three collections of fiction, including The Stories of Mary Gordon, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received many other honors, including a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
Brief Biography
- Hometown:
- New York, New York
- Date of Birth:
- December 8, 1949
- Place of Birth:
- New York, New York
- Education:
- A.B., Barnard College, 1971; M.A., Syracuse University, 1973
