BIBLIOGRAPHY

Blouin, Lenora P. May Sarton: A Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978, 236 p.

Blouin, Lenora P. May Sarton: A Bibliography. 2nd ed. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 2000. 617 pages. Complete annotated listing of works by and about May Sarton.

Primary and secondary bibliography that covers Sarton's early career.

BIOGRAPHY

Peters, Margot. May Sarton: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997, 474 p.

Biographical account that covers Sarton's life and career.

CRITICISM

Evans, Elizabeth. May Sarton, Revisited. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989, 143 p.

Full-length critical study of Sarton's work.

Hunting, Constance, ed. May Sarton: Woman and Poet. Orono, Maine: The National Poetry Foundation, 1982, 327 p.

Interviews and essays about Sarton.

Ingersoll, Earl G. Conversations with May Sarton. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991, 213 p.

Collection of interviews with Sarton.

Martin, James. “Questions of Style.” Poetry 126, no. 2 (May 1975): 103-15.

Article contends that “May Sarton's poems are so strong in their faith and in their positive response to the human condition that they will likely outlast much of the fashionable, cynical poetry of our era.”

Sibley, Agnes. May Sarton. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1972, 160 p.

Biographical and critical study of Sarton.

Straw, Deborah. “Belles Lettres Interview.” Belles Lettres 6, no. 2 (Winter 1991): 34-38.

Interview in which Sarton discusses her theater experiences, her creative process, and the position of woman writers in America.

Swartzlander, Susan and Marilyn R. Mumford, ed. That Great Sanity: Critical Essays on May Sarton. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1992, 277 p.

Collection of essays that cover aspects of Sarton's life and work.

Additional coverage of Sarton's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers Supplement, Vol. 8; Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1-4R, 149; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 1, 34, 55; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 4, 14, 49, 91; Contemporary Novelists; Contemporary Poets; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 48; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1981; DISCovering Authors Modules: Poetry; Feminist Writers; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Reference Guide to American Literature; and Something About the Author, Vols. 36, 86.