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  1. Rebecca Margot Godfrey (December 2, 1967 – October 3, 2022) was a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. Early Life [ edit ] Godfrey was born in Toronto, Ontario , to writers Dave Godfrey [1] and Ellen Godfrey.

  2. Nov 4, 2022 · Rebecca Margot Godfrey was born on Dec. 2, 1967, in Toronto. Her father, David Godfrey, was an English professor and a publisher; her mother, Ellen (Swartz) Godfrey, was an editor and a mystery ...

  3. Apr 19, 2024 · Rebecca Godfrey became involved in the Reena Virk case long before publishing Under the Bridge. According to her interview with Jenny Offill of Electric Lit, author Rebecca Godfrey lived in New York at the time of Reena Virk’s murder. She discovered the crime after reading the article “Grisly Killing of Girl, 14, Startles a Town in British ...

  4. Rebecca Godfrey came from a literary family. Her mother, Ellen (Swartz) Godfrey, was an editor and mystery writer, while her father, David Godfrey, was an English professor and publisher.

  5. May 3, 2024 · Rebecca Godfrey was born on December 2, 1967, in Toronto and raised in Victoria, on Vancouver Island. Later in life, she moved to New York City to pursue her career as a writer.

  6. Nov 4, 2022 · Rebecca Godfrey, the author whose best-selling true-crime book Under the Bridge was ordered to series by Hulu just more than a month ago, has died of lung cancer at a New York City hospital. She ...

  7. Nov 20, 2023 · Leslie Jamison writes about her late friend Rebecca Godfrey—who died before she could finish her novel about Peggy Guggenheim—and about the experience of completing the book, at the behest of ...

  8. Sep 6, 2005 · Rebecca Godfrey is an award-winning novelist and journalist. Her first novel, The Torn Skirt , was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her second book, Under The Bridge , an investigation into the Reena Virk case, was a Globe and Mail Book of the Year, and received the B.C. Award for Canadian Nonfictionand ...

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  9. Nov 6, 2022 · Rebecca Godfrey, who mapped the complex landscape of teenage transgression with exquisite detail and precise language in a novel, “The Torn Skirt,” and later in a nonfiction book, “Under the Bridge,” about a murder that became a cause célèbre in Canada, died on Oct. 3 in Manhattan. She was 54.

  10. Sep 19, 2005 · In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls—and boy—accused of a savage murder. As she follows the investigation and trials, Godfrey reveals the startling truth about the unlikely killers. Laced with lyricism and insight, Under ...

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