Interview with NPR
Click here to access Emily Fox Gordon's 2009 interview and reading on NPR's Book Tour! Book Tour is a Web feature and podcast hosted by NPR's Lynn Neary. Each week, they present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work.
It makes sense that Emily Fox Gordon would choose a college campus as the setting for her first novel, It Will Come to Me. Her father was a professor of economics at Williams College, and she grew up surrounded by the academic world in the college town of Williamstown, Mass. She first wrote about her childhood in her memoir Are You Happy? A Childhood Remembered. And though she describes herself as an overweight social misfit with a difficult father and a mother who became an alcoholic, she was not altogether unhappy. read more...
It makes sense that Emily Fox Gordon would choose a college campus as the setting for her first novel, It Will Come to Me. Her father was a professor of economics at Williams College, and she grew up surrounded by the academic world in the college town of Williamstown, Mass. She first wrote about her childhood in her memoir Are You Happy? A Childhood Remembered. And though she describes herself as an overweight social misfit with a difficult father and a mother who became an alcoholic, she was not altogether unhappy. read more...
