Giles Gordon

The publication of her first book added to the list of her epistolary friends: Giles Gordon , her editor at Gollancz, Tom Carvlin of the Chicago Tribune, and London journalist Paddy Kitchen (and...

Her friendships with Giles Gordon and Paddy Kitchen each crashed in flames for reasons connected with BH 's writing (publishing negotiations or opinions expressed), but each was joyfully restored in 1980-1. She had...

Cadmore is a teacher with brilliant credentials, and a visual artist whose drawings give dignity and value to ordinary life in the remote village of Dilepe and its oppressed and victimized people. She is also...

From the beginning BH sounded defensive about this work, fearing it might be hard to place. Sure enough, both Giles Gordon and Hilary Rubinstein , her agent at the time, felt it was...

Success as a novelist did not put a stop to BH 's shorter and more topical writings. Soon after finishing Maru she was writing for the New African about singer Miriam Makeba 's music and...

In August 1980 BH submitted to Giles Gordon , who was once again her agent, six stories all linked to her historical research, though separate in their creation and in their subsequent fate. One of...

NG began writing short stories while working on her first novel; she published two hundred of them. She began their international publication in the New Yorker and the Yale Review, and spread...

About half of these nineteen very short stories (averaging less than ten pages apiece) are reprinted from magazines—Stand, the Irish Tatler, Writing Women, London Magazine—or anthologies. Short Days, Long Nights...