Gail Godwin

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Gail Godwin has written ten novels, including The Odd Woman (1974), A Mother and Two Daughters (1982), The Good Husband (1994), and Evensong (1999). She edited, with Shannon Ravenel, The Best American Short Stories of 1985. She has also written several opera librettos, including Remembering Felix (pb. 1987), for composer Robert Starer.

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Gail Godwin received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1974-1975, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1975- 1976, and the award in...

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• Dream Children (Short Stories)
• Evensong (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Father Melancholy’s Daughter (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Father Melancholy’s Daughter (Women’s Literature)
• Father Melancholy’s Daughter (Character Profiles)
• Father Melancholy’s Daughter (Magill Book Reviews)
• Finishing School, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Good Husband, The (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Good Husband, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Mother and Two Daughters, A (American Fiction)
• Mother and Two Daughters, A (Women’s Literature)
• Mother and Two Daughters, A (Character Profiles)
• Odd Woman, The (American Fiction)
• Odd Woman, The (Women’s Literature)
• Odd Woman, The (Character Profiles)
• Sorrowful Woman, A (Short Stories)
• Southern Family, A (Magill Book Reviews)
• Violet Clay (Women’s Literature)
• Violet Clay (Character Profiles)
• Fable Tradition, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)