(Eleanor) May Sarton - Poetry books, Novels, Nonfiction, Children's books

Poet and writer, born in Wondelgem, Belgium. The daughter of George Sarton, she grew up in Cambridge, MA and attended Shady Hill School (1917–26). She published poetry early, trained at the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City (1929–33), and travelled widely. A noted teacher at many institutions, she is known for her poetry, short stories, novels, and memoirs, such as Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year (1992). She settled in York, ME, and in her later years became something of a cult figure to a circle of women.

"The fear of homosexuality is so great that it took courage to write Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing," she wrote in Journal of Solitude 1973, "to write a novel about a woman homosexual who is not a sex maniac, a drunkard, a drug-taker, or in any way repulsive, to portray a homosexual who is neither pitiable nor disgusting, without sentimentality .

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 (edited by Serena Sue Hilsinger and Lois Brynes) Halfway to Silence Letters from Maine Coming Into Eighty (1994) Winner of the Levinson Prize

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 The Fur Person The Small Room 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

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

Children's books

Punch's Secret A Walk Through the Woods