MARY GORDON

Mary Gordon considered becoming a nun, but instead became a writer who Bill Moyers called “one of the leading chroniclers of contemporary Catholic life in America” when she was featured on his PBS series Faith & Reason. Her reputation as a novelist was established with the 1979 publication of Final Payments, followed by In the Company of Women a year later. Her other novels include Men and Angels, The Other Side, The Rest of Life (three novellas), and Pearl. She has won three O. Henry awards for best short story and is the recipient of the Lila Acheson Wallace Reader’s Digest Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her most recent work of nonfiction is Reading Jesus: A Writer’s Encounter with the Gospels.

Videos:

• Interview with Mary Gordon
• Mary Gordon Biography

Recommended Reading:

• Reading Jesus: A Writer’s Encounter with the Gospels

Other 2011 Keynote Speakers:

• Walter Brueggemann
• Teresa Okure
• Gerald O. West
• Steed V. Davidson, Preacher