Life Span: Impressions of a Lifetime Spent Crossing and Recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge - Paperback

by Molly Giles (Author)

LIFE SPAN, a memoir in flash form, is the first book of nonfiction from award-winning fiction writer Molly Giles. A life-long resident of the Bay Area, Giles has crossed and recrossed the Golden Gate Bridge many times since the first sunny day in 1945 when she rode from San Francisco to Sausalito in a moving van with her father who had just returned home from fighting in France. In LIFE SPAN, readers travel with her, as every transit across yields an insight, an expectation, a regret, or a challenge in the life of a woman writer whose steadfast love of writing fuels her way.

Author Biography

Molly Giles is an award-winning fiction writer. Her first collection of stories, Rough Translations won the Flannery O' Connor Prizefor Short Fiction, the Boston Globe Award, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers award. Four subsequent collections-- Creek Walk, Bothered, All the Wrong Places, and Wife with Knife-- have also won awards, including the Small Press Best Fiction Award, the California Commonwealth Silver Medal for Fiction, the Spokane Short Fiction Award, and the Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize. She published her first novel, Iron Shoes, in 2000, and twenty-three years later, its sequel, The Home for Unwed Husbands. Giles has taught fiction writing at San Francisco State University, University of Hawaii, San Jose State University, the National University of Ireland at Galway, the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and at numerous writing conferences. She has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Book Reviewing. She lives in Woodacre, CA.