Caroline Ferguson Gordon 1895-1981 Her early novels of southern history: Penhally (1931), None Shall Look Back (1937), and The Garden of Adonis (1937).

Caroline Gordon, Kentucky born and classically educated, has until now been the most neglected figure of the southern literary renaissance. Although she excelled as a critic and wrote at least six good novels, she was overshadowed by famous colleagues. Chief among these was her husband of thirty-six years, the poet and critic Allen Tate. Married to Allen Tate in New York in May 1925. Their daughter, Nancy, was born in September. They divorced in 1959.Won the Guggenheim Award in 1932, and the O Henry Award in 1934

Primary works are as follows, Penhally, 1931; Aleck Maury, Sportsman, 1934; None Shall Look Back, 1937; The Garden of Adonis, 1937; Green Centuries, 1941; The Women on the Porch, 1944; The Forest of the South, 1945; The House of Fiction: An Anthology of the Short Story (with Allen Tate), 1950; The Strange Children, 1951; The Malefactors, 1956; A Good Soldier: A Key to the Novels of Ford Madox Ford, 1957; How to Read a Novel, 1957; Old Red and Other Stories, 1963; The Glory of Hera, 1972; The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon, 1981. How to read a novel. NY: Viking Press, 1958. PN3385 .G6

The house of fiction; an anthology of the short story, with commentary, by Caroline Gordon and Allen Tate. NY: Scribner, 1960. PN6014 .G67

Old Red, and other stories. NY: Scribner, 1963. PS3513 .O5765 O4

The collected stories of Caroline Gordon; with an introd. by Robert Penn Warren. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1981. PS3513 .O5765 A6