Charlotte Gordon is an American writer and assistant professor of English at Endicott College

Endicott College

- History :Endicott was founded in 1939 by Eleanor Tupper and her husband, George O. Bierkoe, as a two-year women’s college. The college was issued its first charter by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in that year and graduated its first class in 1941. In 1944, it was approved by the state for...

. She was born in St.Louis, Missouri in 1962, received her B.A in English and American Literature from Harvard College

Harvard College

Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...

. She received her M.A in Creative Writing and her Ph.D in Literature from Boston University

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

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She was awarded the Massachusetts Book Award for non-fiction for her biography of the seventeenth-century poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Dudley Bradstreet was New England's first published poet. Her work met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.-Biography:...

, Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet. This was followed by The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths, which in the author's own words describes the 'shadows, gaps and silences' in the biblical texts about Abraham

Abraham

Abraham , whose birth name was Abram, is the eponym of the Abrahamic religions, among which are Judaism, Christianity and Islam...

, Sarah

Sarah

Sarah or Sara was the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac as described in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. Her name was originally Sarai...

 and Hagar. Examining them as stories, and drawing on the Bible both as a source of literature and religion, she notes that 'some of the most crucial western ideas about freedom come from Hagar'. She is currently working on a book about Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book...

 and Mary Shelly.

External links

• Charlotte Gordon's home page http://charlottegordonbooks.com
• Little, Brown's Author Page http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/authors_Charlotte-Gordon-(1004037).htm
• NPR Interview with Charlotte Gordon http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4616663
• CBC Radio Interview with Charlotte Gordon http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2009/01/january-02-2009.html