Charlotte Gordon
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Charlotte Gordon is an American writer and associate professor of English at Endicott College.
She was born in St.Louis, Missouri in 1962, and received her B.A in English and American Literature from Harvard College. She received her M.A in Creative Writing and her Ph.D in Literature from Boston University.[1]
She was awarded the Massachusetts Book Award for non-fiction for her biography of the seventeenth-century poet, Anne Bradstreet, Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet.[2] This was followed by The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths,[3] which in the author's own words describes the 'shadows, gaps and silences' in the biblical texts about Abraham, Sarah and Hagar.[4] Examining them as stories, and drawing on the Bible both as a source of literature and religion, she notes that 'some of the most crucial western ideas about freedom come from Hagar'.[5]
Her most recent book, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, is about the mother and daughter pair of writers. The first Mary died giving birth to the second. The Guardian review said the book does a creditable job of binding mother and daughter together again. The Wall Street Journal said, "In the end, it is the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley that give Charlotte Gordon’s vivid double biography its urgency."[6] BBC Radio 4 selected Romantic Outlaws as its Book of the Week on August 10, 2015. [7] The biography won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award.[8]
See also
- Lyndall Gordon, also a literary biographer of Wollstonecraft (2005) and of mother-daughter pairs
References
- ↑ Endicott College Profile
- ↑ Massachusetts Book Award: Mistress Bradstreet http://www.massbook.org/massbooks2006.html
- ↑ Review of The Woman Who Named God
- ↑ Gordon, Charlotte (2009) The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths. New York: Little, Brown, xv
- ↑ Gordon, Charlotte (2009) The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths. New York: Little, Brown, xiv
- ↑ http://www.wsj.com/articles/vindication-of-a-righteous-woman-1437163449
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b064xjn1
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Charlotte Gordon's website [1]
- Little, Brown's author page [2]
- NPR interview [3]
- CBC Radio interview [4]
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