Rebecca Margot Godfrey was a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer.
Rebecca Godfrey dies: Cause of death
Godfrey died in New York City on October 3, 2022, from lung cancer. She was 54. At her death, Godfrey had nearly completed her novel about Peggy Guggenheim. The novel, which will be completed using her notes, is scheduled to be published posthumously by Knopf in the summer of 2023.
A week before her death, Hulu announced it had ordered an eight-episode true-crime limited series, Under the Bridge, based on Godfrey’s book of the same name. Credited as one of the executive producers, Godfrey collaborated with Quinn Shepard for two and a half years to adapt the book for the screen. Production will begin in December 2022.
Godfrey was born in Toronto, Ontario, to writers Dave Godfrey and Ellen Godfrey. As a child, she relocated with her family to Victoria, British Columbia. Godfrey attended the University of Toronto and Sarah Lawrence College, from which she received an MFA in Creative Writing. She worked in Toronto and New York as a journalist and editor before she began writing books.
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