Rebecca Godfrey
Novelist, Author
Who is Rebecca Godfrey?
Rebecca Godfrey is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is also a writing mentor with the Creative Nonfiction mentoring program.
She was born in Toronto, Ontario, to writers Dave Godfrey and Ellen Godfrey. As a child her family relocated to Victoria, British Columbia. Godfrey attended the University of Toronto and Sarah Lawrence College, from which she received a MFA in Creative Writing. She worked in Toronto and New York as a journalist and editor before writing her first novel, Torn Skirt.
Her first book, Torn Skirt, a novel, was shortlisted for the 2002 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Her second book, Under the Bridge, an investigation into the beating death of Reena Virk, received British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction in 2006.
Reese Witherspoon's Type A Productions have optioned Under the Bridge, with director Catherine Hardwicke attached to direct.
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