Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8, 1949) is an American writer from Queens and Valley Stream, New York. She is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism. …

Mary Gordon (born Mary Gilmour; 16 May 1882 – 23 August 1963) was a Scottish actress who mainly played housekeepers and mothers, most notably the landlady Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Her body of work included nearly 300 films between 1925 and 1950.

Mary Gordon, American writer whose novels and short fiction deal with growing up as a Roman Catholic and with the nature of goodness and piety as expressed within that tradition. Her novels included Final Payments (1978), The Company of Women (1981), …

Mary Gordon. Actress: Bride of Frankenstein. Scots actress, long in the United States, who specialized in housekeepers and mothers, most notably the housekeeper Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the Thirties and Forties.

Feb 12, 2021 · Mary Gordon is the author of numerous novels, memoirs and literary criticism. Her most recent novel, Payback, was published by Pantheon in September 2020.

Jul 19, 2014 · Mary Gordon is a New York-based American Catholic writer and English professor at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism on a wide...

Mary Gordon may refer to: Mary Gordon (prison inspector) (1861–1941), British physician and prison inspector; Mary Charlotte Gordon (1840–1926), wrote as Mrs Disney Leith; Mary Gordon (writer) (born 1949), American author; Mary Gordon (actress) (1882–1963), Scottish actress of the 1920s–50s who appeared in nearly 300 films

Mary Catherine Gordon is an American writer from Queens and Valley Stream, New York. She is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism. In 2008, she was named Official State Author of New York.

Mar 8, 2025 · Mary Gordon featured in over 300 films, she’s one of Glasgow’s earliest and most accomplished film actors, and most Glaswegians in 2024 don’t even know her name.

Professor Gordon is the author of seven bestselling novels. She has also published two collections of stories, a book of essays, two memoirs, a biography of Joan of Arc and Reading Jesus, a writer's encounter with the Gospels.

Mary Gordon has 111 books on Goodreads with 68745 ratings. Mary Gordon’s most popular book is Spending.

Mary Catherine Gordon has no memory of not wanting to be a writer—even when she wanted to be a nun. She was born in 1949 in Far Rockaway, New York. It was a miraculous birth, thought impossible because her mother, Anna Gagliano Gordon, was a polio victim with limited function of her lower body and was furthermore having her first child at the ...

Mary Gordon. Actress: Bride of Frankenstein. Scots actress, long in the United States, who specialized in housekeepers and mothers, most notably the housekeeper Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the Thirties and Forties.

Feb 24, 2021 · Mary Gordon is the author of nine novels, including There Your Heart Lies, The Company of Women, and The Love of My Youth; six works of nonfiction, including Joan of Arc: A Life and the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and three collections of short fiction, including The Stories of Mary Gordon, which was awarded the Story Prize ...

Author Mary Gordon is widely regarded as one of the leading chroniclers of contemporary Catholic life in America. Her literary oeuvre - novels, short stories, essays, and personal memoirs -...

Mary Gordon. Self: Creativity with Bill Moyers. Mary Gordon grew up in Valley Stream, New York, a few towns southeast of Queens. Her early books are about the effects of an orthodox Irish-Catholic background on women and her later novels are about being a woman and an artist. Her 1978 novel, 'Final Payments', made her an overnight success at ...

Mary Gordon is the author of ten works of fiction and non-fiction, most recently The Liar’s Wife, a collection of four novellas about the difficulty of acknowledging and moving on from the past, set largely between the eastern American coast and continental Europe.

Mary Gordon is the author of nine novels, including Final Payments, The Love of My Youth, Pearl, and There Your Heart Lies; seven works of nonfiction, including the memoirs Circling My Mother...

May 6, 2004 · Mary Gordon is the author of five highly acclaimed novels, as well as memoirs, short stories, essays, biography, and criticism. Her most recent novel is Spending: A Utopian Divertimento (Scribner, 1998), and her most recent collection of essays is Seeing Through Places: Reflections on Geography and Identity (Scribner, 2000).

Mary Catherine 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. They constitute an important contribution to Irish-American literature.