Which of these American authors is best know for her bestselling novels that take place in the fictional village of Mitford, Jan Karon or Mary Gordon?
Mary Gordon (writer) Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8, 1949) is an American writer and the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism.
Mary Caponegro Mary Caponegro (born November 21, 1956) is an American experimental fiction writer whose collections include "Tales from the Next Village", "The Star Cafe", "Five Doubts", "The Complexities of Intimacy", and "All Fall Down". Her stories appear regularly in Conjunctions and in other periodicals. She was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature in 1992, and is also the recipient of The General Electric Award for Younger Writers, the Bruno Arcudi Prize, and the Charles Flint Kellog Award in Arts and Letters. She has taught at Brown University, RISD, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Syracuse University. She is the Richard B. Fisher Family Professor of Writing and Literature at Bard College. Her work has been praised for its syntactic complexity and its surreal, fabulist content.