Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon is the author of six novels, including The Company of Women, Final Payments, and Pearl, as well as two memoirs: The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother. The winner of a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, the 1997 O. Henry Award for Best Short Story, and the 2007 Story Prize for The Stories of Mary Gordon, she is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College and lives in New York City.

Photograph by David Shankbone.

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