Book
Complete novels / Jean Stafford ; Kathryn Davis, editor.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781598536447
- ISBN: 1598536443
- Physical Description: 894 pages ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: New York : The Library of America, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 874-894). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Boston adventure -- Mountain lion -- Catherine wheel. |
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| Subject: | American fiction > 20th century. |
| Genre: | Fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
Author Notes
Jean Stafford: Complete Novels (LOA #324) : Boston Adventure / the Mountain Lion / the Catherine Wheel
Jean Stafford (1915-1979) grew up in southern California and Colorado. After graduating from the University of Colorado in 1936, she studied in Heidelberg for a year, then moved to the Northeast and began to write. Stafford would publish three novels, Boston Adventure (1944), The Mountain Lion (1947), The Catherine Wheel (1952), more than forty short stories ( The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1970), and A Mother in History (1966), a journalistic portrait of Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald. Kathryn Davis is the Hurst Writer in Residence at Washington University and the author of eight novels, including Labrador , The Walking Tour , Duplex , and The Silk Road . She has received the Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.
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