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Mary Gordon
author, professor of English at Barnard College
**Mary Gordon** is an American writer and is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism. She is the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1997 O. Henry Award for best story.