Books written by Gail Godwin

Prize Stories 1980: The O. Henry Awards

Jorge Esposito Dr. William Evans Sean Goldman Michelle Goldstein Mrs. Ronald Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jacoby Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kincaid The names brought faces with them , faces he hadn't realized he knew .
Publishing: A Writer’s Memoir

“Peter said Viking isn't making enough money and Viking and Penguin now answer to Pearson, the multinational book company.” I was within two months of completing The Finishing School. Viking was publishing my novella about the young ...
A Southern Family

Boston Globe ISBN 0-380-72987-3 5 1 595 > EAN Perennial An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers www.harpercollins.com www.gailgodwin.com Cover art : Approaching Storm Over Pisgah by Howard A. Pearson A 9780380 ...
Father Melancholy's Daughter

III : AN EVENING GONE As some children become rapacious collectors of foreign stamps or rock star memorabilia or storybook dolls ( Harriet MacGruder once threw such a violent tantrum over an out - of - stock Melanie Wilkes doll that her ...
Äiti ja kaksi tytärtä

After the unexpected death of Leonard Strickland, his wife Nell and daughters Cate and Lydia are left facing the unknown.--Source other than Library of Congress.
The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961-1963

S. Burman and Bill Hamilton—Chapel Hill Paul Trinchieri—Miami AF—Pompano B.—Asheville Niels—Copenhagen Antonio—Las Palmas James—London Will there be a next, or will it stop with B.? Are there to be no affairs?
Queen of the Underworld

My contact Herman Melton had Jackson's updated victim list ready when I called. “That's the trouble with a day job, Emma, you miss all the excitement," he said sadly. “I was all set to drive back from Hallandale when we heard the news ...
The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961-1963

Excerpt from “Bobby's Girl,” words and music by Gary Klein and Henry Hoffman, copyright © 1962 (renewed 1990) by Emi Blackwood Music, Inc.; excerpt from “That Was Yesterday” from MILK AND HONEY, music and lyric by Jerry Herman, ...
The Making of a Writer, Volume 2: Journals, 1963-1969

29, 51, 75, 255, 265, 508 Briggs, Robert, 25, 94,, 111-12, 118,122, 124-2 -3 “Bright Eyes,” 11-12, 15 Britten, Benjamin, 61 The Bmlllers Kammaznv (Dostoyevsky) 1;-4., 290 Bruce-Adams, Maggie, 2-5 Bryant, Cecil Farris, ...
Queen of the Underworld: A Novel

Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable...
Unfinished Desires: A Novel

Sparking enthusiasm for a play about the founding of their North Carolina mountains Catholic girls' school, a charismatic ninth grader and her recently orphaned best friend set in motion a series of events that have decades-long ...
The Finishing School

Justin Stokes would never forget the summer she turned fourteen, nor the woman who transformed her bleak adolescent life into a wondrous place of brilliant color. In the little pondside...
The Good Husband

The brilliant, charismatic Magda Danvers had once taken the academic world by storm with her controversial book, "The Book of Hell," and now, gravely ill, she still influences and transforms the lives of those around her
A Mother and Two Daughters

A father's death brings together his wife and his two grown daughters and their contrasting lifestyles, experiences, and expectations. Reprint.
27 Views of Asheville: A Southern Mountain Town in Prose & Poetry

27 Views of Asheville presents a brightly colored, kaleidoscopic vision of a city lately come to prominence for its metropolitan ambience and cultural background. Here is place full of variety and surprise.
Heart

Here is a gift of the heart from an eminent American writer at the pinnacle of her creative talents. It is a work of extraordinary power, creativity, scholarship, and passion.
Heart: A Personal Journey Through Its Myths and Meanings

Gail Godwin takes us on a breathtaking journey of the heart that spans the entire history of human civilisation, combining literature, myth, religion, philosophy, medicine, the fine arts, and intensely personal stories from the writer's own ...
Grief Cottage: A Novel

The power and beauty of this artful novel wash over the reader like the waves on a South Carolina beach.
Old Lovegood Girls

Luminous and masterfully crafted, Old Lovegood Girls is the story of a powerful friendship between talented writers, two college friends who have formed a bond that takes them through decades of a fast-changing world, finding and losing and ...
Heart: A Personal Journey Through Its Myths and Meanings

Gail Godwin combines myth, literature, the fine arts, religion, philosophy, medicine and personal tales to explore the full and complex character of this unique icon.