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Mary Gordon

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born

December 08, 1949 in The United States

gender

female

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Literature & Fiction, Women & Gender Studies

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Mary Gordon was born in Far Rockaway, New York, to Anna Gagliano Gordon, an Italian-Irish Catholic mother, and David Gordon, a Jewish father who converted to Catholicism. While growing up, she attended Holy Name of Mary School in Valley Stream and for high school attended The Mary Louis Academy in Jamaica, N.Y.. She is Catholic.

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 1980s. She and her husband, Arthur Cash, live in New York City and Hope Valley, Rhode Island. They have two adult children, Anna and David. Gordon is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. Cash is retired.

In 1981, she wrote the foreword to the Harv...more

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Books by Mary Gordon

Average rating: 3.51 · 7,105 ratings · 634 reviews · 48 distinct works

	Spending: A Novel 3.62 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Love of My Youth: A Novel 2.75 avg rating — 456 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Final Payments 3.71 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 1978 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Pearl 3.07 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Circling My Mother: A Memoir 3.15 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Joan of Arc 3.21 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Company of Women 3.48 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1980 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Rest of Life: Three Novellas 3.56 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Men and Angels 3.50 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Stories of Mary Gordon 3.96 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!”
― Mary Gordon, Conversations with Mary Gordon

tags: college , feminism

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“For the Irish, life is a matter of perpetual grievance. We remember the Famine, but forget the Draft Riots. We seal off our neighborhoods to strangers, but allow our own priests to victimize our own children. We worship violence and we enslave ourselves to alcohol, we lie and steal and kill without conscience for generations at a time. But it's all right in the end, and do you know why? Because we don't tolerate lust.”
― Mary Gordon, The Other Side

tags: immigrant-fiction

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“All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.”
― Mary Gordon, Good Boys and Dead Girls: And Other Essays

tags: jane-austen-literature-humor

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