Gail Godwin is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the bestselling author of twelve critically acclaimed novels, including
Violet Clay,
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 Fitzgerald
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.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
My Book, The Movie: Grief Cottage.
The Page 69 Test: Grief Cottage.
Writers Read: Gail Godwin.
--Marshal Zeringue