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She was born in Street.Louis, Missouri in 1962, and received her Bachelor of Arts in English and American Literature from Harvard College.
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Charlotte Gordon
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Harvard University.
Career
She received her M.A in Creative Writing and her Doctor of Philosophy in Literature from Boston University. She was awarded the Massachusetts Book Award for non-fiction for her biography of the seventeenth-century poet, Anne Bradstreet, 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, Sarah 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".
As may be known from Ms Gordon"s website, (charlottegordonbookscom) her most recent book, "Romantic Outlaws", about Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, has been published. The Wall Street Journal writes, "In the end, it is the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley that give Charlotte Gordon’s vivid double biography its urgency."
British Broadcasting Corporation 4 selected Romantic Outlaws as its Book of the Week on August 10, 2015.
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