May Sarton
Author · 51 books
May Sarton was born on May 3, 1912, in Wondelgem, Belgium, and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her first volume of poetry, Encounters in April, was published in 1937 and her first novel, The Single Hound, in 1938. An accomplished memoirist, Sarton boldly came out as a lesbian in her 1965 book Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. Her later memoir, Journal of a Solitude, was an account of her experiences as a female artist. Sarton died in York, Maine, on July 16, 1995.
Books
In Time Like Air
Poems
1958
Journal of a Solitude
1973
Miss Pickthorn and Mr. Hare
A Fable
1966
I Knew a Phoenix
Sketches for an Autobiography
1988
The Single Hound
1991
Halfway to Silence
Poems
1980
Selected Poems
1978
A Private Mythology
Poems
1996
A Reckoning
1978
The Magnificent Spinster
1985
Inner Landscape
Poems
1939
Encore
A Journal of the Eightieth Year
1993
Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine
Poems Selected and New
1961
Shadow of a Man
1950
After the Stroke
A Journal
1988
Anger
1982
A Grain of Mustard Seed
1970
The Poet and the Donkey
1969
The Lion and the Rose
Poems
1948
The Fur Person
1957
Letters from Maine
Poems
1984
Joanna and Ulysses
1963
The Land of Silence
And Other Poems
1953
As Does New Hampshire and Other Poems
1967
At Eighty-Two
A Journal
1995
Plant Dreaming Deep
1968
The Birth of a Grandfather
1957
The House by the Sea
1977
Gods and Mortals
Modern Poems on Classical Myths
2001
Coming into Eighty
Poems
1994
The Education of Harriet Hatfield
1989
Faithful Are the Wounds
1955
Writings on Writing
1995
The Small Room
1961
At Seventy
A Journal
1984
The Bridge of Years
A Novel
1946
Collected Poems, 1930-1993
1992
May Sarton
A Self-Portrait
1986
From May Sarton's Well
Writings of May Sarton
1994
Kinds of Love
1970
The Silence Now
1988
Crucial Conversations
1976
A World of Light
Portraits and Celebrations
1976
A Shower of Summer Days
A Novel
1952
The Journals of May Sarton Volume One
Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering
2017
Recovering
A Journal
1980
As We Are Now
1973
Collected Poems
1930-1973
1974
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
1965
Endgame
A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year
1992
May Sarton
Among the Usual Days
1993
