About Caroline Gordon

Caroline Ferguson Gordon (1895 – 1981) was an American novelist and literary critic who, while still in her thirties, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932 and an O. Henry Award in 1934. Married in in 1925 to Allen Tate, they both became Roman Catholics. Their literary contributions earned each of them prominent places in the Southern Renaissance; Robert Penn Warren praised Gordon for “enriching our literature uniquely."

On Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”

By |2026-01-18T16:07:18-06:00January 18th, 2026|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, Cluny, Edgar Allan Poe, Literature, Timeless Essays|

In "The Fall of the House of Usher," Edgar Allan Poe takes the Gothic setting, with all its machinery and décor, and the preposterous Gothic hero, and transforms them into the material of serious literary art. “Commentary on Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher,” from The House of Fiction, edited by Caroline Gordon and [...]

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Reading for Enjoyment

By |2024-10-05T12:40:08-05:00October 5th, 2024|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Cluny|

The reader who demands that his own moral code shall not be infringed upon, or his feelings lacerated by any unpleasant happenings in any book he reads, does not want to be made a better man as the result of reading it. How to Read a Novel, by Caroline Gordon (Cluny Media, 250 pages) T.S. [...]

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