About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Gail Godwin, Gustaf Sobin, Wilfrid Sheed, Graciela Limon, Norman Rush, Bruce Jay Friedman, Ann Rinaldi, Martha Grimes, Donald E. McQuinn, Alexander Theroux, Leslie Epstein, Terry Kay, Kay Nolte Smith, Edna Buchanan, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, John Casey, Chet Raymo, William Melvin Kelley, Darryl Ponicsan, Richard Lipez, K. C. Constantine, Leonard Gardner, Gerald N. Lund, Lily Tuck, Robert Littell, Clarence Cooper, Jr., Robert Grudin, Joseph Girzone, Arturo Islas, Rudy Wurlitzer, Louis Uchitelle, Matt Braun, Celeste Newbrough, Ella Leffland, Warren Murphy, Dorothy Uhnak, Joseph McElroy, Ralph Compton, Robert James Waller, Jack Bickham, Richard Sapir, Jane Louise Curry, Barbara Daly, Anne Leaton, Louise Munro Foley, Nicholas Rinaldi, M. J. Engh, Douglas Terman, William Caunitz, Mark Smith, Richard Bradford, Susan Johnson, Alexandra Ripley, Carol L. Dennis, Andrew Coburn, Kristin Hunter, Bruce Dobler, R. M. Koster, Charles Newman, Lawrence Thornton, Joseph Amiel, Elizabeth Nunez, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Geoffrey Wolff, Ted Reynolds, Edmund P. Murray, William E. Coles, Jr., Ronald Anthony Cross, Les Martin, Prudy Taylor Board, Jane Juska, Ivy Ruckman, Gloria Skurzynski, Ellen Schwamm. Excerpt: Gail Kathleen Godwin (born June 18, 1937 ) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has published one non-fiction work, two collections of short stories, and eleven novels, three of which have been nominated for the National Book Award and five of which have made the New York Times Bestseller List. Godwin was born in Birmingham, Alabama but raised in Asheville, North Carolina by her divorced mother and grandmother. She attended Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina (a women's college founded by Presbyterians in 1857) from 1955 to 1957, but graduated with a B.A. in Journalism from the University of North Carolina a...