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:
Offshore by Penelope FitzgeraldRead about the other entries on the list.
A compressed, intensified masterpiece about living in extreme poverty on a London houseboat. When the novel won 1979's Booker Prize, the literary establishment was livid.
My Book, The Movie: Grief Cottage.
The Page 69 Test: Grief Cottage.
Writers Read: Gail Godwin.
--Marshal Zeringue
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