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A Short Biography of May Sarton

Author Name:

May Sarton

Born As:

Eleonor Mary Sarton

Other Names:

Born:

3 May 1912

Died:

16 Jul 1995




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Selected Works:

Poetry books:

Encounter in April
Inner Landscape
The Lion and the Rose
The Land of Silence
In Time Like Air
Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine
A Private Mythology
As Does New Hampshire
A Grain of Mustard Seed
A Durable Fire
Collected Poems, 1930-1973
Selected Poems of May Sarton 
Halfway to Silence
Letters from Maine
Coming Into Eighty - 1994, Winner of the Levinson Prize

Nonfiction:

I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
Plant Dreaming deep
Journal of a Solitude
A World of Light
The House by the Sea
Recovering: A Journal
At Seventy: A Journal
Writings on Writings
After the Stroke
May Sarton - A Self-Portrait
Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year

Novels:

The Single Hound
The Bridge of Years
Shadow of a Man
A Shower of Summer Days
Faithful are the Wounds
The Birth of a Grandfather - 1957
The Fur Person
The Small Room- 1961
Joanna and Ulysses
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
Miss Pickthorn and Mr. Hare
The Poet and the Donkey
Kinds of Love
As We Are Now
Crucial Conversations
A Reckoning
Anger
The Magnificent Spinster
The Education of Harriet Hatfield

Children's books:

Punch's Secret
A Walk Through the Woods.                          
Father George Alfred Leon Sarton                          
                          
In 1945 she met the person who would be her partner for the next thirteen years, Judy Matlack, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Honey in the Hive - 1988 is about their relationship. They separated when Sarton's father died and she moved to Nelson, New Hampshire. She later moved to York, Maine.