News Release
September 1999
Moravian College Arts & Lectures presents a special
evening with Gail Godwin: Reading with commentary and book signing,
on Monday, October 4, at 8:00 p.m. The activities will be held in Prosser
Auditorium, Haupert Union Building, which is located at Locust and Monocacy
streets in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The event is open to the public
and admission is free.
Author Gail Godwin was born in 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama,
and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. She attend St. Geneviere's-of-the-Pines
in Asheville, Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received a B.A. in Journalism
in 1959. In 1988 she was made a Distinguished Alumna at Chapel Hill.
She also holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois, Vassar,
and Columbia University. Her awards include a John Simon Guggenheim
Fellowship, National Endowment grants for both fiction and libretto
writing, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute
of Arts and Letters. She has been awarded honorary degrees from UNC-Asheville
and UNC-Greensboro.
Godwin is the author of ten novels and two collections
of fiction. Three novels, The Odd Woman, A Mother and Two Daughters,
and Violet Clay were nominated for the National Book Award. A Southern
Family (1987) won both the Janet Heidiger Kafka Award from the University
of Rochester and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, endowed by
the Lipinsky Foundation and presented by the Western Carolina Historical
Association. The Good Husband was published in September 1994. Both
A Southern Family and Father Melancholy's Daughter were Main Selections
of the Book-of-the-Month-Club, and her last four novels were on the
New York Times best-seller list.
Ms. Godwin's long-awaited tenth novel, Evensong [a sequel
to Father Melancholy's Daughter] was published in early 1999 by Ballatine/Random
House. Copies of Godwin's novels are currently available for purchase
in the campus bookstore. For more information, call (610) 861-3916.
