May sarton

May Sarton. Image ID: 2007913 May 3rd marks the centenary of the birth of poet and novelist May Sarton. Sarton’s most important novel, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, tells the story of septuagenarian Hilary Stevens, a poet whose life is retold episodically during an interview with two writers from a literary magazine. In notes for the draft of Mrs. Stevens, now in

A light left on, May Sarton

December 1992 | Tom Andrews, David Bottoms, Thomas Dukes, Rebecca Elson, Pamela Harrison, Dennis Held, Steve Kronen, Rennie McQuilkin, Carol Muske, Anne Pitkin, Robert Randolph, Michael Riley, May Sarton, R. Smith, Timothy Steele, Stephen Stepanchev, Ronald Wallace, Theodore Worozbyt, Steven Cramer

NELSON, NH, THE SIGNPOST SAID, pointing off to the right of my backroads route to a bookstore event I gave in 2011. I knew it led to the former home of a favorite author, May

May Sarton (1912 –1995) was an important and prolific American author of poetry, literature, and journals. The Rare Book and Special Collections Division holds several of Sarton’s first editions in the Rare Book and Gene Berry and Jeffrey Campbell Collections.

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May Sarton

May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton. She was an American poet, novelist and memoirist.