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Rebecca Godfrey was an award-winning novelist and journalist. Her first novel, The Torn Skirt, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Under The Bridge received one of Canada's largest literary awards, the British Columbia Award for Canadian Nonfiction, as well as the Arthur Ellis Award for Excellence in Crime Writing. She held an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and received fellowships from Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. She taught writing at Columbia University, and lived with her family in upstate New York. She died in 2022.
Godfrey brilliantly resurrects the avant-garde adventurer Peggy Guggenheim as a feminist icon for our times -- Jenny Offill Peggy Guggeinheim embodied the twentieth century . . . Rebecca Godfrey's prose is as stylish as her protagonist and every bit as deeply sensuous, and thoughtful . . . An unparalleled life presented as a page-turner -- Gary Shteyngart Godfrey does full justice to the rich eccentricity of the story but, more important, she does justice to Peggy herself by giving her a voice - one that is intimate, urgent, imagistic . . . In this act of literary homage, Jamison has honoured Godfrey just as Godfrey has honoured Peggy. -- Michael Arditti * Financial Times * A fascinating portrait of a woman who was wry and brave and determined to be different. It is the result of ten years' work from the novelist Rebecca Godfrey, who died before she could finish it. Her friend Leslie Jamison wrote the final part, and has done a wonderful job of keeping the tone and flavour of the original going until the end. -- Sunday Times * Nick Rennison * A vivid portrait of a tumultuous 20th century life. -- Mail on Sunday * Anthony Cummins * A rich and rewarding summer read. -- Daily Mail * Erica Wagner * Proves that Peggy Guggenheim, the iconic, New York-born art collector, is deserving of a legacy beyond her curations. From Manhattan's upper echelons to a bohemian existence in Venice, the story emerges of a woman who carved out her own unrelentingly stylish path. * ELLE *
