Jan 4, 2010
Jean Stafford’s first three books were novels, Boston Adventure (1944), The Mountain Lion (1947), and The Catherine Wheel (1952). She also published juvenile fiction and a short, book-length interview with the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, A Mother in History (1966).
Although critics suggest that her insightful, carefully crafted fiction deserves more attention, Stafford is generally considered to be a minor writer. Best known for her more than forty short stories, which—like her novels—are...
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