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| Book-length Non-Fiction by Gail Godwin |
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The Making of a Writer, Volume 2: Journals, 1963-1969 Published by Random House, 2011
As a young woman and aspiring author, Gail Godwin kept a detailed journal of her hopes and dreams, her love affairs, daily struggles, and small triumphs as she yearned for the day when she would finally become a published writer. At the urging of her friend Joyce Carol Oates, Godwin has distilled these early journals into two parts: This second and final volume opens in London in 1963 and concludes with the triumphant sale of Godwin's first novel in 1969.
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The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961-1963 Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
After the breakup of her first marriage and being fired from her job as a reporter for the Miami Herald, Godwin decides to devote herself to becoming a writer and moves to Europe — first to Denmark then to London, with a glorious interlude in the Canary Islands. Godwin lived in London for two years working at the U.S. Travel Service by day and, during her free time, doggedly pursuing her writing often amid anxious self-doubt. Godwin kept a daily chronicle of this heady time in her life recording her impressions of new places, new people (new men — lots of them), her reactions to the books she was reading, and her struggles to create prose and find her voice as a writer.
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