Giles Gordon

AQ published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review. In the mid-sixties she told her publisher,...

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...

Sarah from this volume (dated 1943) was reprinted in Modern Short Stories 2, 1940-1980, 1982, edited by Giles Gordon .

The Fifth of November was chosen by Giles Gordon for Modern Short Stories 2 1940-1980, 1982.

The title story had been turned down by The New Yorker (which in fact accepted only two of the eleven stories in this volume) and by British periodicals.The Fly-Paper from this volume was...

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...

Reviews were mixed. The Times called the book catty as well as too clever . . . by half, while the New York Times Book Review called it awkward and inflated while also accusing it...

Berg earned AQ two major awards: the Harkness Fellowship, given to the most promising Commonwealth artist under thirty years, and the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship from the University of New Mexico .Giles Gordon

LP was so moved that she wept as she wrote this play. She later perceived an autobiographical element in it. Reviewers were on the whole less impressed than they had previously been by Page...

The adjectives chosen for these twelve stories by Giles Gordon in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography are luminous, incisive. At the time of publication they were praised in the Times and the Times...

Weldon wrote a fighting speech for the awards ceremony, protesting .about publishers' treatment of authors. She claimed later to have shown it ahead of time to the organisers, but I suppose they hadn't bothered to...

Giles Gordon , who was at one time her literary agent, later wrote that she was impossible about her work. Pay her a compliment—and she would inevitably take it as an insult.

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...