{"id":1353,"date":"2016-03-24T09:35:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2018-04-18T09:24:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:24:16","slug":"godwin-gail-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"GODWIN, GAIL, 1937-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Journalist, writer; composer. \u00a0Born– June 18, 1937, Birmingham. Parents– Mose Winston and Kathleen (Krahenbuhl) Godwin. Married– Douglas Kennedy, 1960; married– Ian Marshall, July 17, 1965. Education– University of North Carolina, B.A.; University of Iowa, M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1971. Worked for Miami Herald, 1959-1960; U.S. Embassy in London and U.S. Travel Service, 1962-1965; editorial assistant, Saturday Evening Post, 1966. Taught at University of Iowa, 1967-1971; fellow, University of Illinois Center for Advanced Studies, Champaign-Urbana, 1971-72. Free-lance writer after 1972. Guggenheim fellowship, 1975-1976. Librettist for several musical works by Robert Starer. Member, Authors League of America, Modern Language Association, PEN, and Authors Guild.\u00a0 National\u00a0Book Award Nominee three times; American Book Awards Nominee twice; Thomas Wolfe Memorial Award;\u00a0Alabama Library Association Authors Award, 1979.\u00a0 Honorary doctorates from UNC (1987), University of the South (1994). and SUNY (1996).<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna Margarita’s Will. Concord, N.H.; William B. Ewert, 1984.<\/p>\n

Dream Children– Stories. New York; Knopf, 1976.<\/p>\n

Evenings at Five.\u00a0 New York;\u00a0 Ballantine, 2003.<\/p>\n

Evensong.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Ballantine, 1999.<\/p>\n

Father Melancholy’s Daughter. New York; Morrow, 1991.<\/p>\n

The Finishing School. New York; Viking, 1985.<\/p>\n

Flora.\u00a0 New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.<\/p>\n

Glass People. New York; Knopf, 1972.<\/p>\n

The Good Husband.\u00a0 New York: Ballantine, 1994.<\/p>\n

Heart:\u00a0 A Personal Journey through its Myths and Meanings.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Morrow, 2001.<\/p>\n

A Mother and Two Daughters. New York; Viking, 1982.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bedford and the Muses. New York; Viking Press, 1983.<\/p>\n

The Odd Woman. New York; Knopf, 1974.<\/p>\n

The Perfectionists.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Harper, 1970.<\/p>\n

Publishing:\u00a0 A Writer’s Memoir.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Bloomsbury, 2015.<\/p>\n

Queen of the Underworld.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Random House, 2006.<\/p>\n

A Southern Family. New York; Morrow, 1987.<\/p>\n

Unfinished Desires.\u00a0 New York;\u00a0 Random House, 2009.<\/p>\n

Violet Clay. New York; Knopf, 1978.<\/p>\n

Librettist:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna Margarita’s Will.\u00a0 C.R.I., 1980.<\/p>\n

Apollonia.\u00a0 Minneapolis, 1979.<\/p>\n

The Ideal Self …. Melville, N.Y.; MCA Music, 1983.<\/p>\n

Journals of a Songmaker.\u00a0 Pittsburgh, 1976.<\/p>\n

Remembering Felix.\u00a0 Spectrum, 1989.<\/p>\n

The Last Lover (Pelagia); a Musical Morality Play. Melville, N.Y.; MCA Music, 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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