Gail Godwin

Gail Godwin is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including Unfinished Desires, Flora, Grief Cottage, and Old Lovegood Girls and two story collections. A lifelong diarist, she has published the first two volumes of her journals, excerpts from which were published in Narrative. Godwin is also the author of Getting to Know Death: A Meditation (Bloomsbury, 2024) and Heart: A Natural History of the Heart-Filled Life. She lives in Woodstock, New York.

Photograph by Jolanta Drozd Kaminski.

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