Books
On the way to breakfast a few days ago, writer May Sarton talked rather grimly about what lay ahead on her “last poetry-reading tour.”
April 29, 1987
May Sarton, the prolific poet and novelist who cherished a solitary lifestyle but wrote openly about her lesbian love affairs, has died.
July 22, 1995
A high-strung female friend was recently trying to remember a maxim--from British Prime Minister William Gladstone, or maybe it was Henry Ford.
May 19, 1992
MAY SARTON: Selected Letters, 1955-1995, Edited by Susan Sherman, W.W. Norton: 448 pp., $39.95
June 30, 2002
From her nautical keyhole on Maine’s rocky coast, May Sarton turns out reflections on solitude, inner life and love in the form of poetry, fiction and journal accounts with surprising regularity.
Sept. 28, 1986
“The Magnificent Spinster” is a novel about writing a novel, which is really a biography.
Nov. 10, 1985
May Sarton’s 77 years of life have provided a lode of artistic subject matter and she has quarried a great quantity of it.
July 9, 1989
SARTON SELECTED: An Anthology of the Journals, Novels, and Poems of May Sarton (W. W.
May 26, 1991
I am so sorry that May Sarton’s newest book is being subjected to the harshest of criticisms.
July 23, 1989
MRS. STEVENS HEARS THE MERMAIDS SINGING by May Sarton (W. W. Norton: $8.95; 220 pp.).
May 23, 1993