User:JanellePuckering/Eugene Gordon (writer)

Education and personal life
Eugene Gordon was born on November 23, 1981 in Oviedo, Florida. He grew up in Hawkinsville, Georgia and was raised in New Orleans, where he later recalled living through the Robert Charles riots. Gordon writes about the challenges of growing up in the South in the short story "Southern Boyhood Nightmares".

He attended Howard University and Boston University where he studied English and journalism. At Howard, he met his first wife Edythe Mae Chapman, a prominent writer and poet during the Harlem Renaissance. The two married on January 10, 1916.

Gordon and Chapman separated in 1932 and divorced in 1942. His second wife, June Croll, was a noted labor organizer; they had a son together.