The New York Times (New York), 14 April 1981
CAROLINE GORDON, NOVELIST, CRITIC AND SHORT-STORY WRITER, 86, DIES
Caroline Gordon, novelist, short-story writer and critic, died Saturday after surgery in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, where she lived. She was 86 years old.
Miss Gordon's themes for her novels and stories were often drawn from the South — she was born in Kentucky and had lived in western Tennessee. The works, using the connections of a large, cultivated Southern family, were often autobiographical.
During a career of more than 50 years, Miss Gordon published nine novels and was at work on ''The Narrow Heart'' at her death. Short Stories to Be Published
Her two books of short stories have been brought together and are to be published this month by Farrar, Straus & Giroux as ''The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon.'' In his introduction to the collection, Robert Penn Warren, the poet and fellow Southerner, said Miss Gordon belonged to the group of Southern women that includes Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Anne Porter, ''who have been enriching our literature uniquely in this century.''
One of Miss Gordon's first novels, ''Aleck Maury, Sportsman,'' was about her father. It was published in 1934 by Charles Scribner's Sons and was recently reissued by the Southern Illinois University Press as part of its Lost American Fiction Series.
Before publishing her first short story in 1929, Miss Gordon had been secretary to Ford Madox Ford, the British novelist and critic, who gave her many insights. Their association led her to write a critical study of the novelist, ''A Good Soldier: A Key to the Novels of Ford Madox Ford.''
Miss Gordon was the first of three wives of the poet Allen Tate, who died in 1979. They were married in 1924 (sic-1925)5 and had a daughter, Nancy Meriwether Woods of Princeton, N.J. She was co-author with Mr. Tate of a commentary for ''The House of Fiction,'' their anthology of short stories, published in 1950.
Besides her daughter, Miss Gordon is survived by four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
NOTE: There is no "Wood Family Cemetery". Mrs. Tate was actually buried in the garden of the home of her daughter, Nancy Tate Wood and is the only person interred there. Nancy and her husband, Dr. Percy Wood, were cremated.
∼TMSI []: M1221* — 8G-Granddaughter of Nicholas Meriwether & Elizabeth (?) Meriwether Browne.
CAROLINE GORDON, NOVELIST, CRITIC AND SHORT-STORY WRITER, 86, DIES
Caroline Gordon, novelist, short-story writer and critic, died Saturday after surgery in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, where she lived. She was 86 years old.
Miss Gordon's themes for her novels and stories were often drawn from the South — she was born in Kentucky and had lived in western Tennessee. The works, using the connections of a large, cultivated Southern family, were often autobiographical.
During a career of more than 50 years, Miss Gordon published nine novels and was at work on ''The Narrow Heart'' at her death. Short Stories to Be Published
Her two books of short stories have been brought together and are to be published this month by Farrar, Straus & Giroux as ''The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon.'' In his introduction to the collection, Robert Penn Warren, the poet and fellow Southerner, said Miss Gordon belonged to the group of Southern women that includes Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Anne Porter, ''who have been enriching our literature uniquely in this century.''
One of Miss Gordon's first novels, ''Aleck Maury, Sportsman,'' was about her father. It was published in 1934 by Charles Scribner's Sons and was recently reissued by the Southern Illinois University Press as part of its Lost American Fiction Series.
Before publishing her first short story in 1929, Miss Gordon had been secretary to Ford Madox Ford, the British novelist and critic, who gave her many insights. Their association led her to write a critical study of the novelist, ''A Good Soldier: A Key to the Novels of Ford Madox Ford.''
Miss Gordon was the first of three wives of the poet Allen Tate, who died in 1979. They were married in 1924 (sic-1925)5 and had a daughter, Nancy Meriwether Woods of Princeton, N.J. She was co-author with Mr. Tate of a commentary for ''The House of Fiction,'' their anthology of short stories, published in 1950.
Besides her daughter, Miss Gordon is survived by four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
NOTE: There is no "Wood Family Cemetery". Mrs. Tate was actually buried in the garden of the home of her daughter, Nancy Tate Wood and is the only person interred there. Nancy and her husband, Dr. Percy Wood, were cremated.
∼TMSI []: M1221* — 8G-Granddaughter of Nicholas Meriwether & Elizabeth (?) Meriwether Browne.
The New York Times (New York), 14 April 1981
CAROLINE GORDON, NOVELIST, CRITIC AND SHORT-STORY WRITER, 86, DIES
Caroline Gordon, novelist, short-story writer and critic, died Saturday after surgery in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, where she lived. She was 86 years old.
Miss Gordon's themes for her novels and stories were often drawn from the South — she was born in Kentucky and had lived in western Tennessee. The works, using the connections of a large, cultivated Southern family, were often autobiographical.
During a career of more than 50 years, Miss Gordon published nine novels and was at work on ''The Narrow Heart'' at her death. Short Stories to Be Published
Her two books of short stories have been brought together and are to be published this month by Farrar, Straus & Giroux as ''The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon.'' In his introduction to the collection, Robert Penn Warren, the poet and fellow Southerner, said Miss Gordon belonged to the group of Southern women that includes Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Anne Porter, ''who have been enriching our literature uniquely in this century.''
One of Miss Gordon's first novels, ''Aleck Maury, Sportsman,'' was about her father. It was published in 1934 by Charles Scribner's Sons and was recently reissued by the Southern Illinois University Press as part of its Lost American Fiction Series.
Before publishing her first short story in 1929, Miss Gordon had been secretary to Ford Madox Ford, the British novelist and critic, who gave her many insights. Their association led her to write a critical study of the novelist, ''A Good Soldier: A Key to the Novels of Ford Madox Ford.''
Miss Gordon was the first of three wives of the poet Allen Tate, who died in 1979. They were married in 1924 (sic-1925)5 and had a daughter, Nancy Meriwether Woods of Princeton, N.J. She was co-author with Mr. Tate of a commentary for ''The House of Fiction,'' their anthology of short stories, published in 1950.
Besides her daughter, Miss Gordon is survived by four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
NOTE: There is no "Wood Family Cemetery". Mrs. Tate was actually buried in the garden of the home of her daughter, Nancy Tate Wood and is the only person interred there. Nancy and her husband, Dr. Percy Wood, were cremated.
∼TMSI []: M1221* — 8G-Granddaughter of Nicholas Meriwether & Elizabeth (?) Meriwether Browne.
CAROLINE GORDON, NOVELIST, CRITIC AND SHORT-STORY WRITER, 86, DIES
Caroline Gordon, novelist, short-story writer and critic, died Saturday after surgery in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, where she lived. She was 86 years old.
Miss Gordon's themes for her novels and stories were often drawn from the South — she was born in Kentucky and had lived in western Tennessee. The works, using the connections of a large, cultivated Southern family, were often autobiographical.
During a career of more than 50 years, Miss Gordon published nine novels and was at work on ''The Narrow Heart'' at her death. Short Stories to Be Published
Her two books of short stories have been brought together and are to be published this month by Farrar, Straus & Giroux as ''The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon.'' In his introduction to the collection, Robert Penn Warren, the poet and fellow Southerner, said Miss Gordon belonged to the group of Southern women that includes Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Anne Porter, ''who have been enriching our literature uniquely in this century.''
One of Miss Gordon's first novels, ''Aleck Maury, Sportsman,'' was about her father. It was published in 1934 by Charles Scribner's Sons and was recently reissued by the Southern Illinois University Press as part of its Lost American Fiction Series.
Before publishing her first short story in 1929, Miss Gordon had been secretary to Ford Madox Ford, the British novelist and critic, who gave her many insights. Their association led her to write a critical study of the novelist, ''A Good Soldier: A Key to the Novels of Ford Madox Ford.''
Miss Gordon was the first of three wives of the poet Allen Tate, who died in 1979. They were married in 1924 (sic-1925)5 and had a daughter, Nancy Meriwether Woods of Princeton, N.J. She was co-author with Mr. Tate of a commentary for ''The House of Fiction,'' their anthology of short stories, published in 1950.
Besides her daughter, Miss Gordon is survived by four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
NOTE: There is no "Wood Family Cemetery". Mrs. Tate was actually buried in the garden of the home of her daughter, Nancy Tate Wood and is the only person interred there. Nancy and her husband, Dr. Percy Wood, were cremated.
∼TMSI []: M1221* — 8G-Granddaughter of Nicholas Meriwether & Elizabeth (?) Meriwether Browne.
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