Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing: The Bennington Writing Seminars

Writers at Bennington

Lyndall Gordon, Writer-in-Residence

Gordon’s biographies include T.S. Eliot’s Early Years and Eliot’s New Life, which were published in a one-volume edition, T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life. Her other books are Vindication:The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Virginia Woolf: A Writer’s Life; Shared Lives, a memoir; Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life; and A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art. For her biographies, she has received the Jaime Tait Black Prize, the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, and the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy. Gordon has taught at Columbia University, from which she holds a PhD, and for twenty years she taught at Oxford University, where she was previously a Rhodes Fellow. Gordon is currently at work on a novel about South African women of her generation, and she lives in Oxford, England.

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