May Sarton (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
May Sarton was born Eléanore Marie Sarton, the daughter of George Sarton, an eminent philosopher and author of a four-volume history of science, and Mabel Sarton, an artist and designer. Because she was born on May 3, she was called May. In 1916, her parents emigrated from Belgium to the United States because of the events of World War I. The Sartons settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where George taught part time at Harvard University.
May was a precocious child; she wrote poetry from the age of nine, and some of her poems were published when she was...
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