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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not only illuminate whole lives but also convey with an elegant economy of words the sense of the place and time in which her protagonists find themselves. This volume also includes the acclaimed story "An Influx of Poets," which has never before appeared in book form.
The Mountain Lion (New York Review Books Classics)

NYRB Classics

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Eight-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother Ralph are inseparable, in league with each other against the stodgy and stupid routines of school and daily life; against their prim mother and prissy older sisters; against the world of authority and perhaps the world itself. One summer they are sent from the genteel Los Angeles suburb that is their home to backcountry Colorado, where their uncle Claude has a ranch. There the children encounter an enchanting new world—savage, direct, beautiful, untamed—to which, over the next few years, they will return regularly, enjoying a delicious double life. And yet at the same time this other sphere, about which they are both so passionate, threatens to come between their passionate attachment to each other. Molly dreams of growing up to be a writer, yet clings ever more  fiercely to the special world of childhood. Ralph for his part feels the growing challenge, and appeal, of impending manhood. Youth and innocence are hurtling toward a devastating end.

The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford

Univ of Massachusetts Pr

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Follows the success and decline of Jean Stafford, a brilliant and influential mid-century writer, who drew from her own past in Colorado to forge a unique writing style until alcohol and depression destroyed her lifelong quest for inner strength.
The Catherine Wheel

W W Norton & Co Inc

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Trade Paperback - The Catherine Wheel A Novel by Jean Stafford. The Ecco Press Second Printing 1985.
Jean Stafford

Chatto & Windus

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This is a biography of the American fiction writer Jean Stafford (1915-1979), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 1970 and who is considered to be one of the best short-story writers of this century. It was authorized by her estate, and the author has had access to new and unpublished material. David Roberts traces her life, from her birth in a poor Colorado family in 1915, to her rise as one of group of celebrated East Coast writers which included Randall Jarrett and Robert Lowell, whom she married against the wishes of his patrician Boston family. Her stories were greeted with critical acclaim, as were her novels, including the bestselling "Boston Adventurer" and her second, "Mountain Lion". In 1947 "Life" called her the "most brilliant of the new fiction writers". Meanwhile, her marriage fell apart and she spent many months in a psych-alcoholic clinic and wrote only one further novel, though her "Collected Stories" won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize and she continued to write criticism, essays and polemic. She married again to Oliver Jensen, but this marriage too ended in divorce and her third marriage was to "New Yorker" sports writer A.J. Liebling. After his death she became something of a recluse and died in 1979. Her work is currently enjoying a revival and her "Collected Stories" and "Boston Adventurer" are both available in Hogarth.
JEAN STAFFORD COMP BIBLIO (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

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Viola T. Hunt
Fredericksburg.com - May 23, 682
Erin, of Moneta and Timothy Michael Hunt and his wife, Erin, of Stafford; her daughter, Angela Marie Hunt of Stafford; her stepmother, Jean; and more »

Shiplake men retain Margaret Evans cup
Henley Standard - Sep 07, 2009
Shiplake men retain Margaret Evans cup Phil Buckett 28-14; Jean Buckett, Eric Davis, Sylvia Blackmore, Daphne Jacob 23-11; Jackie Stafford, John Snook, Iain Robinson, Peter Christmas 20-20.

Paul R. Bley
Fredericksburg.com - Sep 06, 2009
He was also a soccer referee for Stafford County and was active in Hull's Memorial Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Diane Male Bley; a son, and more »

Academic spotlight
Green Bay Press Gazette - Sep 05, 2009
They are: Stephen Robertson, the son of Randall and Jean Robertson of De Pere. He is attending the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is majoring in

The Quad Countdown: No. 11 Georgia
New York Times - Aug 25, 2009
The Quad Countdown: No. 11 Georgia Most of that team returned last fall – including, of course, the Heisman Trophy contenders Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno. and more »