Giles Gordon

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

The book finished, the process of publication unexpectedly spun out into a nightmare. Trouble began when BH requested 94 free copies for her to give, as she had promised, to the people she interviewed. Reg Davis-Poynter

Meanwhile Giles Gordon well-meaningly but rashly raised with BH the question of her tax situation in Botswana. The publishers came up with a complicated arrangement to keep costs down, whereby Bateleur Press would be the...

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.