Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan (4 October 1913 - 24 January 1994) was a rare book and manuscript collector and a leading scholar of the Renaissance, known for her research into the life of Poggio Bracciolini.
Gordan's life work of editing, translating, and annotating the letters of Poggio Bracciolini to Niccolò de' Niccoli resulted in the 1974 publication of Two Renaissance Book Hunters (Columbia University Press).
Her father, Howard Lehman Goodhart, supported and encouraged her research by amassing a notable collection of incunabula and Renaissance manuscripts.
[9] Following her death, The Renaissance Society of America created the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize in her memory.
In 2016, Bryn Mawr College hosted a symposium dedicated to Gordan's memory, entitled Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions.