Charlotte Gordon

Charlotte Gordon's most recent book, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (Random House), won the National Book Critics Circle award for biography. Her other books include: Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet (Little, Brown, 2005), The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths (Little Brown, 2009), and two books of poetry: When the Grateful Dead Came to St. Louis and Two Girls on a Raft. A graduate of Harvard and Boston Universities, she has been featured on NPR's "Weekend Edition," CBC's "The Current" as well as many other radio and television programs. She is the distinguished professor of humanities at Endicott College in Beverly, MA.