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Sarton, May (1912 - 1995)
Genre: Children's Literature, General Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry
Sarton, born Eleanor Marie Sarton on May 3, 1912 in Wondelgem, Belgium, emigrated to the U.S. with her family in 1916, settling in Massachusetts. Sarton lived in New Hampshire as an adult, moving to York, Maine in 1973, where she lived for 22 years until her death on July 16, 1995. Sarton was a prolific author with novels, memoirs, poetry and chuildren's books to her credit
Selected Bibliography
Novels
- The Single Hound (?/1991)
- The Bridge of Years (1946/1985)
- Shadow of a Man (1950/1982)
- A Shower of Summer Days (1952/1995)
- Faithful Are the Wounds (1955/1997)
- The Birth of the Grandfather (1957/1989)
- The Fur Person (1957/1983)
- The Small Room (1961/1976)
- Joanna & Ulysses (?/1987)
- The Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1965/1993)
- Miss Pickthorn & Mr. Hare (1968)
- The Poet & the Donkey (1969/1996)
- Kinds of Love (1970/1994)
- As We Are Now (1973/1992)
- Crucial Conversations (1975/1994)
- A Reckoning (1978/1997)
- Anger (1982/1996)
- The Magnificent Spinster (1985/1995)
- The Education of Harriet Hatfield (1989/1993)
Poetry:
- Encounter in April
- Inner Landscape
- The Lion & the Rose
- The Land of Silence
- In Time Like Air
- Cloud Stone Sun Vine
- A Private Mythology (?/1996)
- As Does New Hampshire (1967)
- A Grain of Mustard Seed (1971/1987)
- A Durable Fire (1972)
- Collected Poems 1930-1973 (1974)
- Selected Poems of May Sarton (1978)
- Halfway to Silence (1980)
- Letters from Maine: Poems (1984/1997)
- The Silence Now (1988/1990; includes earlier uncollected poems as well as new poems)
- Collected Poems 1930-1993 (1993)
- Coming into Eighty: New Poems (1994/1997)
Books for Children:
- Punch's Secret (1974)
- A Walk Through the Woods (1976)
Non-Fiction & Anthologies:
- I Knew A Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography (1959/1996)
- Plant Dreaming Deep (1968/1996)
- Journal of a Solitude(1973/1992)
- A World of Light: Portraits & Celebrations (1976/1988)
- The House by the Sea (1977/1996)
- Recovering: A Journal (1980)
- Writings on Writing (1980)
- May Sarton--A Self-Portrait (1982)
- At Seventy: A Journal (1984/1993)
- Letters to May (1986; by Eleanor Mabel Sarton)
- After the Stroke: A Journal (1988/1990)
- Honey in the Hive: Judith Matlack 1898-1982 (1988)
- Conversations with May Sarton (1991), ed. Earl Ingersoll
- Sarton Selected: An Anthology of the Journals, Novels, and Poems of May Sarton (1991)
- Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year (1992/1996)
- May Sarton: Among the Usual Days: A Portrait, Unpublished Poems, Letters, Journals, and Photographs (1993; ed. Susan Sherman)
- Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year (1993)
- From May Sarton's Well: Writings of May Sarton (1994/1999)
- At Eighty-Two: A Journal (1996/1997)
- Selected Letters: 1916-1954 (Vol 1) (1997)
- Dear Juliette: Letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley (1999)
Selected Resources
- A comprehensive Sarton bibliography
- a Biographical sketch is available from A Celebration of Women Poets
- Poetry magazine produced a lengthy article on Sarton in March 2000
- Material from Maine State Library files