BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mahon, John W. “A Bibliography of Writings by Mary Gordon” and “A Bibliography of Writings about Mary Gordon.” In American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space, edited by Mickey Pearlman, pp. 60-7. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

Bibliography of writings by and about Mary Gordon, through 1989.

BIOGRAPHY

Bennett, Alma. Conversations with Mary Gordon. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002, 206 p.

Edited volume of interviews with Mary Gordon, reprinted from previous publications.

CRITICISM

Feeney, Joseph J. The American Religious Imagination in Three Contemporary Imaginers: A Look at Mary Gordon, Tom McHale, and Andre Dubus. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Press, 1988.

Discussion of religious themes in the fiction of Mary Gordon and other authors.

Hospital, Janet Turner. “Body Maps.” London Review of Books 16, no. 7 (7 April 1994): 23.

Review of The Rest of Life.

Labrie, Ross. “Mary Gordon.” In The Catholic Imagination in American Literature, pp. 248-66. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.

Examines the tension between Gordon's Catholicism and her feminism, paying particular attention to the novella Immaculate Man, from The Rest of Life.

Review of The Rest of Life, by Mary Gordon. New Yorker 69, no. 29 (13 September 1993): 127.

Review of The Rest of Life.

Additional coverage of Gordon's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers Supplement, Vol. 4; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 2; Contemporary Authors, Vol. 102; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 44, 92; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 13, 22, 128; Contemporary Novelists, Ed. 7; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 6; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1981; Feminist Writers; Literature Resource Center; and Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 1.