A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner Flannery O'Connor T. Gordon received both of her awards the Guggenheim and the O. Murphy writes that Caroline Gordon "exhibited a southern nostalgia as strong as any member of the group including Davidson the most unreconstructed of the Agrarians".

Caroline Ferguson Gordon (October 6 1895 – April 11 1981) was a notable American novelist and literary critic who while still in her thirties was the recipient of two prestigious literary awards a 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 1934 O.