Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon is the author of the novels Spending, The Company of Women, The Rest of Life, Final Payments, The Other Side, and Pearl. She has also published the short story collections Temporary Shelter and The Stories of Mary Gordon and the memoir The Shadow Man. She has received a Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1997 O. Henry Award for best story. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.