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May Sarton : a biography
- Title
- May Sarton : a biography / Margot Peters.
- Author
- Peters, Margot.
- Publication
- New York : Knopf, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3537.A832 E83 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 474 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- The first biography of May Sarton: a brilliant revelation of the life and work of a literary figure who influenced her thousands of readers not only by her novels and poetry; but by her life and her writings about it. May Sarton's career stretched from 1930 (early sonnets published in Poetry magazine) to 1995 (her journal At Eighty-Two). She wrote more than twenty novels, and twenty-five books of poems and journals.
- The acclaimed biographer Margot Peters was given full access to Sarton's letters, journals, and notes, and during five years of research came to know Sarton herself - the complex woman and artist. She gives us a compelling portrait of Sarton the actress, the poet, the novelist, the feminist, the writer who struggled for literary acceptance.
- She shows us, beneath Sarton's exhilarating, irresistible spirit, the needy courtier and seducer, the woman whose creativity was propelled by the psychic drama she created in others.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-458) and index.
- ISBN
- 0679415211
- LCCN
- 96025557
- OCLC
- ocm34912743
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries