Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8, 1949) is an American writer from Queens and Valley Stream, New York.

She strongly identified with him and his love for writing and culture, and continued to learn his myths.

He was born into a Jewish family in Vilna, Lithuania and named Israel.

He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist (2007) and was Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the time of his death in 2016.

Gordon currently resides in New York City, where she is McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College, and in Hope Valley, Rhode Island.

In 1984, she was one of 97 theologians and religious persons who signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion, calling for religious pluralism and discussion within the Catholic Church regarding the Church's position on abortion.

In March 2008, Governor Eliot Spitzer named Mary Gordon the official New York State Author and gave her the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction.

[11] In 2010 she was inducted as a member of the inaugural class of the New York Writers Hall of Fame.