Mary Gordon is the author of eighteen books, including Final Payments, Joan of Arc: A Life, Reading Jesus: A Writer’s Encounter with the Gospels, and most recently the novel Payback.
“So, the reason I love her so much, Billie, is that she knows, she knows everything, she knows about love, and she knows about hate, and she sees everything.”
Novelist Mary Gordon on how the multifarious nature of Joan of Arc’s legend and the elusiveness of her personality can expand our ideas about sainthood.
