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BIOGRAPHY

Mary Gordon was born in Far Rockaway , New York , to Anna Gagliano Gordon and David Gordon. While growing up, she lived for a number of years in Valley Stream and attended The Mary Louis Academy .

She received her A.B. from Barnard College in 1971, and her M.A. from Syracuse University in 1973. Gordon lived in New Paltz, New York for a time during the 1980's. She and her husband, Arthur Cash , live in New York City and have two adult children, Anna and David. Gordon is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College . Cash is retired.

Mary Gordon's latest work is ''Circling My Mother: A Memoir'' which was published in 2007. It marks her return to Nonfiction after two works of fiction.


LITERARY WORKS


Novels

  • ''Final Payments'' (1978) ISBN 0-394-42793-9

  • ''The Company of Women'' (1981) ISBN 0-394-50508-5

  • ''Men and Angels'' (1985) ISBN 0-394-52403-9

  • ''The Other Side'' (1989) ISBN 0-670-82566-2

  • ''Spending'' (1998) ISBN 0-684-85204-7

  • ''Pearl'' (2005) ISBN 0-375-42315-X



Novellas and short story collections

  • ''The Rest of Life: Three Novellas'' (1994) ISBN 0-14-014907-4

  • ''Temporary Shelter'' (1987) ISBN 0-394-55520-1

  • ''The Stories of Mary Gordon'' (2006) ISBN 0-375-42316-8 (collects ''Temporary Shelter'' and 22 previously uncollected stories)



Non-fiction


  • Memoirs

  • ---''The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search For Her Father'' (1996) ISBN 0-679-74931-4

  • ---''Seeing Through Places: Reflections on Geography and Identity'' (2000) ISBN 0-684-86255-7

  • ---''Circling My Mother: A Memoir'' (2007) ISBN 0-375-42456-3


  • Essays

  • ---''Good Boys and Dead Girls, and Other Essays'' (1991) ISBN 0-670-82567-0


  • Biography

  • ---''Joan of Arc'' (2000) ISBN 0-670-88537-1



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