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Elizabeth Gaffney

Biography

Elizabeth Gaffney

Elizabeth Gaffney is the author of METROPOLIS. Her stories have appeared in literary magazines such as the Virginia Quarterly Review and the North American Review, and she has been a resident artist at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the Blue Mountain Center. A former staff editor at The Paris Review, Gaffney teaches fiction at The New School and serves as the editor-at-large of the literary magazine A Public Space.

Elizabeth Gaffney

Books by Elizabeth Gaffney

When the World Was Young
by Elizabeth Gaffney - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Relationships

Growing up in the days of food rations, blackouts, and absent fathers, Wally Baker is raised as much by her grandparents' maid as by her mother, the unstable but dazzling Stella. More interested in the latest adventures of Wonder Woman and the ants she excavated from the backyard of her grandparents' brownstone than in dresses or needlepoint, she has her suspicions about Mr. Niederman, the boarder (or spy, she thinks) who has taken the place of her father in her home --- and by her mother's side. Then, a sudden tragedy on V-J Day alters Wally's life forever, raising questions about her mother's past that the inquisitive young girl, and then young woman, can't ignore.