May Sarton

May Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.

May Sarton

May Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.

Books by May Sarton

  • Kinds of Love

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1994

    Friendship, marriage, and intertwined lives in a small New Hampshire town.
  • Crucial Conversations

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1994

    "May Sarton's provocative novel is about a wife who has outgrown her husband, and after twenty-seven years of marriage decides that she has had enough. . . . she is altogether believable." —The...
  • I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1996

    Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood and describes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her coming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a...
  • The Magnificent Spinster

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1995

    “Absolutely compelling . . . . A monument to love, to friendship, and to the certainty that wisdom and goodness can still exist in a deeply troubled world.” —Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain...
  • A Shower of Summer Days: A Novel

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1995

    "At long last in early June the Gordons were expected home at Dene's Court, the house in Ireland which Violet Dene Gordon had inherited."
  • Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1999

    "Sarton has been the lighthouse light for millions of women, and despite the dimming of that light, she remains [in this book] the Sarton who wrote Journal of a Solitude."—Library Journal
  • Anger: A Novel

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1996

    The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments.
  • The House by the Sea: A Journal

    May Sarton, Beverly Hallam

    Paperback, 1996

    This is the first journal Sarton wrote after she moved in 1973 from New Hampshire to the seacoast of Maine.
  • Plant Dreaming Deep: A Novel

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1996

    May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire—how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.
  • A Private Mythology: Poems

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1996

    In these poems, May Sarton reflects on a journey undertaken to celebrate her fiftieth birthday, a journey that took her around the world to Greece via Japan and India, and finally home to the New...