May sarton

NELSON, NH, THE SIGNPOST SAID, pointing off to the right of my backroads route to a bookstore event I gave in 2011. I knew it..

A light left on, May Sarton

May Sarton

May Sarton. Image ID: 2007913 May 3rd marks the centenary of the birth of poet and novelist May Sarton. Sarton’s most important novel, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, tells the story of septuagenarian Hilary Stevens, a poet whose life is retold episodically during an interview with two writers from a literary magazine. In notes for the draft of Mrs. Stevens, now in

December 1992 | Tom Andrews, David Bottoms, Thomas Dukes, Rebecca Elson, Pamela Harrison, Dennis Held, Steve Kronen, Rennie McQuilkin, Carol Muske, Anne Pitkin, Robert Randolph, Michael Riley, May Sarton, R. Smith, Timothy Steele, Stephen Stepanchev, Ronald Wallace, Theodore Worozbyt, Steven Cramer

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton. She was an American poet, novelist and memoirist.