Gail Godwin

Gail Godwin
Lahir	Gail Kathleen Godwin June 18, 1937 Birmingham, Alabama
Pekerjaan	Author
Kewarganegaraan	American
Pendidikan	Bachelor's in Journalism, University of North Carolina M.A. Ph.D., University of Iowa
Genre	Fiction, autobiography
Karya terkenal	A Mother and Two Daughters (1982) and A Southern Family (1987)
Penghargaan	Three-time National Book Award nominee
Website
www.gailgodwin.com

Gail Godwin adalah seorang novelis Amerika Serikat, lahir di Alabama. Ia menuntut ilmu di bidang jurnalistik di University of North Carolina dan meneruskan di Universitas Iowa untuk meraih gelar doktor di bidang sastra inggris. Tesis yang di ajukan olehnya adalah sebuah novel berjudul The Perfectionist. Setelah itu, Godwin menjadi profesor di Universitas Illinois dan terus menulis novel hingga akhir hayatnya. Novelnya yang paling terkenal berjudul A Mother and Two Daughters yang terbit pada 1981.

Novels The Perfectionists (1970) Glass People (1972) The Odd Woman (1974) Dream Children (1976) Violet Clay (1978) A Mother and Two Daughters (1982) ISBN 978-0-345-38923-7 Mr. Bedford and the Muses (1983) The Finishing School (1984) ISBN 978-0-345-47226-7 A Southern Family (1987) Father Melancholy's Daughter (1991) ISBN 978-0-380-72986-9 The Good Husband (1994) Evensong (1999) ISBN 978-0-345-43477-7 Heart: A Personal Journal through its Myths and Meanings (2001) Evenings at Five (2003) ISBN 978-0-345-46103-2 Queen of the Underworld (2006) ISBN 978-0-7393-2599-5 The Making of a Writer (2006) Unfinished Desires (2009) ISBN 978-0-345-48321-8 Flora (2013) ISBN 978-1-4088-4088-7 Publishing: A Writer's Memoir (2015) ISBN 978-1-62040-826-1

Other works The Southern Belle (1975) Being on Everybody's Side (1979) Becoming a Writer (1980) Becoming the Characters in Your Own Novel (1982) Introduction to The Best American Short Stories (1985)