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Caroline Gordon


Born
in Todd County, Kentucky, The United States
October 06, 1895

Died
April 11, 1981

Genre
Fiction, Nonfiction


Caroline Gordon was an American novelist and literary critic who, while still in her thirties, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932 and an O. Henry Award in 1934.

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Average rating: 3.84 · 626 ratings · 99 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors
The Women on the Porch (Sou...
3.44 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1944 — 13 editions
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The Collected Stories of Ca...
3.75 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1981 — 14 editions
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Penhally (Southern Classics...
3.59 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1931 — 6 editions
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None Shall Look Back (South...
3.98 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1937 — 7 editions
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Aleck Maury, Sportsman
4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1934 — 9 editions
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How to Read a Novel
3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1957 — 10 editions
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Green Centuries (Southern C...
4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1941 — 11 editions
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The Malefactors
3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1956 — 5 editions
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4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1950 — 12 editions
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The Strange Children
3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1951 — 5 editions
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“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon
tags: books, imagination, writing
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