Short-story writer and novelist, born in Covina, California, USA. She studied at Colorado University, worked on the Southern Review, and taught at Flushing College. Boston Adventure, her first novel, was published in 1944 to great praise; The Mountain Lion, her second, appeared in 1947. She taught throughout the 1960s and published short stories, children's books, and an interview with the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, A Mother in History (1966). One of America's most admired short-story writers, her Collected Stories appeared in 1969, and won a Pulitzer Prize.
Jean Stafford (July 1, 1915 - March 26, 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her Collected Short Stories in 1970.
Born in California, her first novel, Boston Adventure was a best-seller, earning her national acclaim. She wrote two more novels in her career, but her greatest medium was the short story: her works were published in The New Yorker and various literary magazines. Liebling, a prominent writer for The New Yorker. She died in White Plains, New York in 1979, and was buried in Green River Cemetery, East Hampton, New York.
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