Mary Gordon grew up in an Italian-Irish Catholic/Jewish
family. Her father converted to Catholicism. She attended Holy Name of Mary School
in Valley Stream and The Mary Louis Academy High School in Jamaica, N.Y. She is
Catholic.
Mary received her A.B. from Barnard College and her M.A. from
Syracuse University. She is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard
College.
In 1981, she wrote the foreword to the Harvest edition of
Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. In 1984 she was one of 97
theologians and religious persons who signed “A Catholic Statement on Pluralism
and Abortion,” calling for religious pluralism and discussion within the
Catholic Church regarding the Church's position on abortion.
Novelist Galaxy Craze said this of Gordon as a teacher,
"She loves to read; she would read us passages in class
and start crying, she's so moved by really good writing. And she was the only
good writing teacher at Barnard, so I just kept taking her class over and over.
She taught me so much."
Circling My Mother: A Memoir (2007) marked her return to
nonfiction. In 2009 she published a book Reading Jesus: A Writer’s Encounter
with the Gospels. In it, Gordon uses
her literary training to read the Gospels.
See what she had to say in this book…
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