Caroline Gordon is the author of ten novels, including The Malefactors (1956) and None Shall Look Back (1937), as well as collections of short fiction, including The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon (1981) and Old Red and Other Stories (1963). She co-edited The House of Fiction: An Anthology of the Short Story with her husband Allen Tate (1950), and also published books of criticism, including a study of the novels of Ford Madox Ford, and How to Read a Novel (1957). Gordon won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932 and the O. Henry Award in 1934.
Gordon married Allen Tate in 1924. When Tate was named U.S. Poet Laureate, they moved to DC and lived with Brainard Cheney and Frances Neel Cheney in this house in 1943 to 1944. Gordon gave the house its nickname; “The Bird Cage” was the name of a whorehouse in one of Cheney’s novels.
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3418 Highwood Drive SE, Washington, DC ("The Birdcage")
Also home to: Brainard Cheney Allen Tate