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Rebecca Godfrey

Biography

Rebecca Godfrey

Rebecca Godfrey (1967-2022) was an award-winning novelist and journalist. Her books include THE TORN SKIRT, finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the award-winning true crime story UNDER THE BRIDGE, a Disney+ limited series starring Riley Keough as Rebecca Godfrey. Godfrey earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and taught writing at Columbia University. Born and raised in Canada, she lived with her husband and daughter in Upstate New York.

Rebecca Godfrey

Books by Rebecca Godfrey

Peggy
by Rebecca Godfrey with Leslie Jamison - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She’s in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here: iconoclast and independent woman. Rebecca Godfrey’s PEGGY is a blazingly fresh interpretation of a woman who defies every expectation to become an original. The daughter of two Jewish dynasties, Peggy finds her cloistered life turned upside down at 14, when her beloved father perishes on the Titanic. His death prompts Peggy to seek a life of passion and personal freedom and, above all, to believe in the transformative power of art.

The Torn Skirt
by Rebecca Godfrey