Access this Website to find a collection of good information about Godwin, including a list of the author's published works (with excellent summaries), along with a large catalog of links to other important sites related to the writer. This is a good place to begin your research, and helps you to familiarize yourself with Godwin.

Time.com: Gail Godwin
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,21794,00.html

Here you'll get access to a good review of Godwin's Evensong, a novel she published in late 1999. It is an excellent critical review, critiquing the author's skill, and comparing the book to Godwin's earlier works.

Selah.com: The Other Voice
http://www.selahpub.com/Drama/650-001-OtherVoice.html

At this fascinating site (maintained by one of the foremost publishers of church music in America), you can read and view a production of the coauthored Godwin piece, The Other Voice: A Portrait of Hilda of Whitby. Together, she and musician Robert Starer wrote this production of the life of the famous 7th-century abbess who founded the Monastery of Whitby. An excellent site where you can see and hear Godwin's work.

New York Time Online: Gail Godwin
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/04/specials/godwin-talks.html

Here you'll find an old (but good) article, "Gail Godwin Talks About Her Fiction and Her Muses." In the article, author Herbert Mitgang reviews his meeting Godwin at a poetry reading, and he wonderfully captures her personality. Also revealed in the article are the author's inspirations behind her writing.

BIOGRAPHY
Gail Godwin (b. 1937) was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Ashville, North Carolina. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1959 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. She worked briefly as a reporter for the Miami Herald before earning an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. The thesis for her Ph.D. was a draft of her first published novel The Perfectionists (1970). She published her second novel, Glass People, in 1972, but it was her third novel, The Odd Woman (1974), that won her critical attention when it was nominated for a National Book Award. The Odd Woman showed Godwin using familiar themes of women and relationships, but this time in a more abstract way by incorporating elements of fantasy. She continued to experiment with form to great success, and her next two novels, Violet Clay (1978) and A Mother and Two Daughters (1982), were both nominated for an American Book Award. In addition to her nine novels, Godwin has also published two collections of short stories, Dream Children (1976) and Mr. Bedford and the Muses (1983).