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"For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7." -- Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford (July 1, 1915 – March 26, 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.

She was born in California. Her first novel, Boston Adventure was a best-seller, earning her national acclaim. She wrote two more novels in her career, but her greatest medium was the short story: her works were published in The New Yorker and various literary magazines. For the academic year 1964-1965, she was a Fellow on the faculty at the Center for Advanced Studies of Wesleyan University.[1]

Stafford's personal life was often marked by unhappiness. Her first marriage, to the brilliant but mentally unstable poet Robert Lowell, left her with lingering emotional and physical scars. She was seriously injured in an automobile accident with Lowell at the wheel, a trauma she described in one of her best-known stories, "The Interior Castle," and the disfigurement she suffered as a result was a turning point in her life. A second marriage to Life magazine photographer Oliver Jensen also ended in divorce. Stafford enjoyed a brief period of domestic happiness with her third husband, A. J. Liebling, a prominent writer for The New Yorker. After his death, she virtually ceased writing fiction.

For many years Stafford suffered from alcoholism, depression, and pulmonary disease. By age sixty-three she had almost stopped eating and died of cardiac arrest in White Plains, New York in 1979. She was buried in Green River Cemetery, East Hampton, New York.

Several biographies of Jean Stafford were written following her death: David Roberts' Jean Stafford, a Biography (1988), Charlotte Margolis Goodman's Jean Stafford: The Savage Heart (1990), and Ann Hulbert's The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford (1992). Among these, Goodman's deals most successfully with Stafford as a proto-feministwriter.

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Total Books: 23
Boston Adventure
2021 - Boston Adventure [New York Review Books Classics] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781681375373
ISBN-10: 1681375370
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Jean Stafford Complete Novels  Boston Adventure / The Mountain Lion / The Catherine Wheel
2019 - Jean Stafford Complete Novels Boston Adventure / the Mountain Lion / the Catherine Wheel [LOA #324 - Library of America] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781598536447
ISBN-10: 1598536443
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Humor & Entertainment
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Elephi The Cat with the High IQ
2017 - Elephi the Cat with the High Iq (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780486814261
ISBN-10: 0486814262
Genre: Children's Books
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Il castello interiore
2011 - Il Castello Interiore (Other)
ISBN-13: 9788817050869
ISBN-10: 8817050865
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The Mountain Lion
2010 - The Mountain Lion (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781590173527
ISBN-10: 159017352X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
2005 - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780374529932
ISBN-10: 0374529930
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Stafford Collected Stories
1984 - Stafford Collected Stories (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780525481010
ISBN-10: 052548101X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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The Catherine Wheel
1981 - The Catherine Wheel (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780912946870
ISBN-10: 0912946873
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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COLLECTED STORIES
Collected Stories (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780701115845
ISBN-10: 070111584X
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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780886825881
ISBN-10: 0886825881
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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A Mother in History
A Mother in History (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780886876777
ISBN-10: 088687677X
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Microeconomie du tourisme
Microeconomie Du Tourisme [French Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782760508729
ISBN-10: 2760508722
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La prvisionprospective en gestion tourisme loisir culture
La Prvisionprospective En Gestion Tourisme Loisir Culture (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782760513341
ISBN-10: 2760513343
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