Father Melancholy's Daughter, Evensong, The Good Husband and Evenings at Five. She is also the author of The Making of a Writer, her journal in two volumes (ed. Rob Neufeld). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants for both fiction and libretto writing, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Godwin's new novel is Grief Cottage.
One of the author's six favorite books with remote settings, as shared at The Week magazine:
The Water Is Wide by Pat ConroyRead about another entry on the list.
"The lushness of the island and the remarkable isolation of the school appealed to the do-gooder in me," Conroy explains in this 1972 memoir, about the year he spent as a young man teaching Gullah children on a South Carolina barrier island.
My Book, The Movie: Grief Cottage.
The Page 69 Test: Grief Cottage.
Writers Read: Gail Godwin.
--Marshal Zeringue
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