About Charlotte Gordon

I Speak of Wrongs: Friendships, Feuds, and the Origins of the Women’s Movement is Charlotte Gordon’s fifth book exploring the lives of remarkable women. Other works include Romantic Outlaws: The Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, winner of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award; Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Story of America’s First Poet; The Woman Who Named God: Abraham’s Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths;and Mary Shelley: A Very Short Introduction. A Professor of Humanities and the McCoy Endowed Distinguished Scholar at Endicott College, she is the recipient of a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, The Washington Post, The Cambridge Companion to Early American Poetry, and Harvard Magazine. She has also published two books of poetry: When the Grateful Dead Came to St. Louis and Two Girls on a Raft.

A graduate of Harvard College, she received a master's degree in creative writing and a Ph.D. in history and literature from Boston University.