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	Gail Godwin, author of Heart and many works of fiction and literature. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gail Godwin is the author of eleven acclaimed novels and two collections of stories written over the course of thirty-four years.
		Godwin's next two novels were set in her native South and drew on the facts of her own life.
		Godwin's parents were both North Carolinians, but she was born in Alabama (on June 18, 1937) because her father had a summer job managing a lakeside resort near Birmingham.
	www.gailgodwin.com /gailgodwin.htm (1163 words)

	Amazon.com: Father Melancholy's Daughter: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Godwin brings empathy, understanding and a 19th-century sensibility to this novel of a young woman deeply attached to her father, a moody Episcopalian minister whose wife has abandoned him.
		Having read all of Gail Godwin's novels, I would rank this and Evensong as her best effort in capturing the essence of a half dozen characters - characters we come to care about and identify with, flawed though they may be.
		Godwin's message (thesis) is inclusive and moving in its reality: we are all fellow strugglers in a world most often ruled by random events.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380703149?v=glance (1542 words)

	BookPage Interview February 2001: Gail Godwin
		Although Godwin has a strong background in journalism -- she once worked as a reporter for The Miami Herald -- the shift from fiction to nonfiction with Heart was not without its challenges.
		Godwin's voice in the book is poetic and lucid as she recounts some of the greatest heart moments in history -- the creation of the stethoscope; the first valentine; how the heart symbol got its shape.
		Godwin experienced this connection firsthand during the writing of Heart, when she discussed the narrative with friends, some of whom freely gave her suggestions for the book.
	www.bookpage.com /0102bp/gail_godwin.html (851 words)

	Gail Godwin - Library Writers Series, Fall 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Godwin’s presentation will include selections from several novels and stories that she wrote during the three years she lived in Stone Ridge with her longtime companion, the composer Robert Starer.
		Godwin, a Woodstock resident since 1976, is the author of many critically acclaimed novels, two collections of short stories and a book of non-fiction published in 2001, Heart: A Personal Journey Through Its Myths and Meanings.
		Among the honors Godwin has received in addition to her three National Book Award nominations are a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment grants for both fiction and libretto writing, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
	www.sunyulster.edu /PEOPLE/Godwin.asp (433 words)

	'Evensong' by Gail Godwin
		In “The Finishing School” (one of my personal favorites, though not one of Godwin’s biggest critical successes), she chronicled the relationship between a teen-age girl and an older neighbor woman whom she nearly idolized — until the neighbor did something that made the teen feel betrayed.
		In Godwin’s books her female characters are more roundly drawn and action-oriented than the more cerebral males.
		Godwin’s characters are complex, but that doesn’t leave her book short on plot — especially as the story builds toward its end, when the Millennium March, a source of considerable tension throughout, and a shocking accident that endangers several main characters occur on the same day.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19990307review201.asp (680 words)

	Heart: A Natural History of the Heart-Filled Life by Gail Godwin from HarperCollins Publishers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In a speech she made to a group of authors, Godwin recounted powerful forces on her life, including her mother's passion for writing, the themes of her mother's writing, and her involvement in the theater.
		Godwin retrieved a play written by her mother while her mother was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
		Godwin is a three-time National Book Award nominee and has taught at the University of Iowa, Vassar, and Columbia University.
	www.harpercollins.com /pc/book_xml.asp?isbn=0380808412&tc=RG (1395 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Evenings at Five
		Gail Godwin is one of the few contemporary novelists willing to tackle the ticklish (to modern writers) topic of religion in real life.
		Godwin's longtime companion, composer Robert Starer, with whom she wrote the libretti for 10 musical works, died in 2001, and the anguish so memorably recorded here is set on the page from life.
		For those still on the journey, Godwin seems to testify that lived-with pain is also an inevitable constant of love for human beings and for God.
	www.bookpage.com /0304bp/fiction/evenings_at_five.html (329 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Good Husband (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Godwin's intensely drawn characters are vividly portrayed during the most intimate times of love, marriage, and death.
		As expected with a Godwin book, we also meet a host of fascinating secondary characters - from the "Pastel Patter" an overly nosy college dean's wife, to the wife's adopted child, an obstinate young teen who is dealing with the loss of both her puppy and her name (changed from Crystal to Elberta).
		Godwin must have put quite a bit of time and effort into researching the subject for it to be so detailed.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0345396456 (1054 words)

	Releases :: Reading and book signing with author Gail Godwin at Moravian College
		Author Gail Godwin was born in 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Asheville, North Carolina.
		Godwin is the author of ten novels and two collections of fiction.
		Godwin's long-awaited tenth novel, Evensong [a sequel to Father Melancholy's Daughter] was published in early 1999 by Ballatine/Random House.
	www.moravian.edu /news/releases/1999/070.htm (332 words)

	Written Voices Radio
		Every evening at five o'clock, Christina and Rudy began the ritual commonly known as Happy Hour, sharing drinks along with a love of language and music (she is an author, he a composer, after all), a delight in intense conversation, a fascination with popes, and nearly thirty years of life together.
		Gail Godwin uses all the weapons of art to deal with her own all-too-real grief, and the result is a rigorous exercise in restraint, control, irony, memory."
		Gail Godwin is the three-time National Book Award nominee and bestselling author of eleven critically acclaimed novels, including A Mother and Two Daughters, Violet Clay, Father Melancholy's Daughter, and Evensong.
	www.writtenvoices.com /titlepage.asp?ISBN=0345461037 (749 words)

	Godwin_Gail_nc
		Gail Godwin was born on June 18, 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama.
		In her childhood, Godwin lived with her divorced mother, who was a writer and college literature teacher.
		Godwin's long-waited tenth novel, Eversong [a sequel to Father Melancholy's Daughter] was published in early 1999 by Ballantine/Random House.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/godwin_gail_nc.htm (586 words)

	Hendricks
		Godwin's judgment comes in the subtle revealing of each character's story, the good and the bad, the triumphant and the shameful.
		Godwin's Evensong marks the end of the millennium with both a fun-hearted poke at humanity's insatiable quest to make all things, including God, in our own image, and a compassionate revelation of our deepest truths and virtues that make us incarnations of our creator.
		In Gail Godwin's latest vocational offering, both she and we are made more, sustained and enriched by our encounters with the people of High Balsam.
	www.mindspring.com /~rhill41/kr/kagiyama.htm (1392 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Gail Godwin
		"Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.
		Gail Godwin is the author of many critically acclaimed novels, two collections of short stores, and a book of nonfiction.
		Godwin has thrice been named a National Book Award Finalist: in 1975 for The Odd Woman, in 1980 for Violet Clay and in 1983 for A Mother and Two Daughters.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/godwin_gail.html (406 words)

	Featured Author: Gail Godwin
		On March 20, 1999, Gail Godwin appeared at a Chapter 11 Bookstore in Atlanta.
		"Although Miss Godwin does not entirely succeed in negotiating the distance between family and nation, between the personal and the political, she clearly hopes these distances can be narrowed.
		Godwin's perseverance and her love of story have the last say.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/99/04/04/specials/godwin.html (681 words)

	The Mountain Times
		Godwin, raised in Asheville and now living in Woodstock, New York, includes among her award-winning and best-selling fiction, a few novels based on Asheville settings, including “A Southern Family” and “A Mother and Two Daughters.”
		The Ballantine paperback edition of “Evenings at Five” supplies twenty-seven pages of discussion questions and “A Conversation with Gail Godwin,” exploring such subjects as the aftermath of the death of a loved one, personal religion, and the relationship between autobiography and fiction.
		Godwin’s 1984 novel, “The Finishing School,” is also being published by Ballantine with a reader’s guide created by Neufeld.
	www.mountaintimes.com /mtweekly/2004/0506/gailgodwin.php3 (207 words)

	Southern Quarterly: Gail Godwin's Message: To Those Who Want Wholeness
		As if heeding O'Connor's message, Gail Godwin stands out in highlighting characters and their personalities in her art.
		Lihong Xie in The Evolving Self in the Novels of Gail Godwin and Susan S. Kissel in Moving On: The Heroines ofShirley Ann Grau, Anne Tyler, and Gail Godwin accentuate character identity and maturation as key concepts in Godwin's novels.
		In art, Godwin echoes the perspectives of feminist theologians, persons who attest to the relationship between religion and sexuality.2 The outstanding theologian Ursula King emphasizes the male-centered tradition and sexism in our society.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4074/is_200404/ai_n9385199 (1241 words)

	Author Gail Godwin credits her success to others (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		BY ELIZABETH G. Gail Godwin may have had four novels on the bestseller list and three nominated for National Book Awards, but she gives credit for her success to others.
		Godwin had several critically acclaimed novels under her belt early in her career, but she did not really break through to the popular market until she published “A Mother and Two Daughters.” And that book might not ever have taken shape were it not for a letter from her best friend, Pat.
		Then Godwin wrote from the point of view of the girl, who saw her situation somewhat improved upon using the lipstick but knew it was not going to last.
	www.salisburypost.com /2001march/032501f.htm (584 words)

	Gail Godwin - Evenings at Five
		This story is based on author Gail Godwin’s own relationship with and loss of Robert Starer.
		Godwin is a gifted writer who has the ability to illustrate the joy and pain of everyday life.
		They show Christina at different stages in her life and all are based on Godwin’s own history.
	thebookhaven.homestead.com /Z_Evenings_at_Five.html (185 words)

	The Evolving Self in the Novels of Gail Godwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gail Godwin, author of nine well-received novels, including the critically acclaimed bestseller A Mother and Two Daughters, is one of the most articulate contemporary writers to pursue the idea of the self.
		Drawing on a rich vein of feminist theory and research, Xie illuminates Godwin’s representation of female identity, the development of her vision, and the evolution of her art.
		Fluid and in process, she argues, Godwin’s heroines become more coherent through constant self-examination, more autonomous through the exercise of memory and interpretive power, more authentic by means of continuous self-redefinition.
	www.lsu.edu /lsupress/Books/spr-sum-95/xie.html (319 words)

	The National Book Foundation
		Born on June 18, 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama, Gail Godwin was raised in Asheville, North Carolina by her mother -- a reporter, creative writing teacher and author -- and her grandmother.
		Godwin is the author of two collections of short stories and four librettos for musical works composed by Robert Starer.
		A recipient of the 1981 Award in Literature from the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, she is the author of numerous essays and articles.
	www.nationalbook.org /authorsguide_ggodwin.html (1578 words)

	Chronogram - The Art of Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Invited to her Woodstock home to interview bestselling author Gail Godwin, I feel like a favored character in one of her 11 critically acclaimed novels: a woman seeking a wiser female mentor for lessons in gentility and grace as well as (in this particular storyline) what it means to lead a writer’s life.
		Godwin’s characters and plots likewise emanate from the circumstances of her own Southern upbringing as well as the intellectual life she later shared with Starer.
		The death of Godwin’s brother inspired the storyline of A Southern Family (1987), while that of her manic-depressive father beget Uncle Ambrose, a failed author who kills himself in Violet Clay.
	www.chronogram.com /issue/2004/04/book_shelf (1020 words)

	Asheville NC Writers
		Kathleen Cole, Godwin's mother who died in a 1989 car wreck, worked as a reporter during World War II and interviewed Julia Westall Wolfe several times.
		For a short time after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Godwin followed in her mother's footsteps by serving as a Miami Herald reporter.
		Gail Godwin flies into town to do a reading from her latest novel.
	www.romanticasheville.com /writers.htm (2544 words)

	BookLoons Reviews - Evenings at Five by Gail Godwin
		Gail Godwin shares the anguish she felt when her husband Rudy died.
		Gail details the last months of his life with a paucity of words but with an overflowing cup of emotion.
		Gail Godwin has put into words a subtle love story that enriches us all, sharing that which we all feel when we lose the love of our lives.
	www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.ASP?bookid=2864 (301 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Dream Children: Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Godwin peels back the layers of defense and reveals women who search for meaning and connection in a world of abstraction and isolation.
		Godwin has conjured up a stunning collection of stories that strike at the center of our lives.
		What makes Gail Godwin's short story collection such an astounding delight is the way she finds, not only to follow her characters to their secret places, but to also open the door so we can follow, too.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0345389921 (325 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| EVENSONG by Gail Goodwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		To read Gail Godwin is to touch the very core of human experience.
		With inimitable grace and aching emotional precision, Godwin probes our own complexities in characters whose lives oscillate between success and struggle, stoic resolve and quixotic temptation, bitter disappointment and small, sacred joys.
		Godwin's story unfolds within the confines of a fairly ordinary community with the usual troubles and conflicts.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/evensong.asp (735 words)

	Evenings at Five Review
		It’s this reviewer’s opinion that author Gail Godwin has created a fictional character that is based largely on the author herself.
		Godwin did not write a romance, in what this reviewer’s opinion is of a romance, but rather a piece of women’s fiction.
		Godwin jumps in her hands, it’s very likely it will be joining the other books in her TBR pile.
	www.loveromances.com /eveningsatfive_sandi.html (438 words)

	This Day in History
		When Godwin was 16, her mother married a salesman, and the family moved frequently.
		Godwin attended five different high schools and ultimately invited her estranged father to her graduation.
		Godwin attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and studied journalism.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=literary&month=10272958&day=10272983 (303 words)

	Amazon.com: Heart: A Natural History of the Heart-Filled Life: Books: Gail Godwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In this remarkable book, critically acclaimed author Gail Godwin takes us on a breathtaking journey that spans the history of human civilization, combining myth, art and religion to understand how humans have conceived of the heart through time.
		Gail Godwin is the author of ten novels, three of which were nominated for National Book Awards.
		Gail is a lady in the truest sense.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380808412?v=glance (1048 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Father Melancholy's Daughter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		But they are precisely the themes tackled by Gail Godwin in this, her eighth novel.
		Godwin's last work of fiction, A Southern Family, spent two months on the New York Times bestseller list.
		Gail Godwin's religious perspective permeates every layer of this storyline.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/bookreview/item_8053.html (574 words)

	Gail Godwin -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In childhood Godwin lived with her divorced mother, a writer and college literature teacher who was the model for some of Godwin's strong female characters.
		There were epic historical novels, spy fiction, war novels, science fiction, novels growing out of the civil rights and women's rights movements, regional novels, as well as more standard fiction depicting all facets of life in the United States.
		An English bishop and historian, Francis Godwin wrote the first story of space travel in English literature, The Man in the Moone: or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonsales, the Speedy Messenger.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9096652?tocId=9096652 (640 words)

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