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Jean Stafford's third and final novel, The Catherine Wheel, is a mordant tour de force concerning the gradual disintegration of a woman under pressures both societal and self-imposed. More about this book >
Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not only illuminate whole lives but also convey with an elegant economy of words the sense of the place and time in which her protagonists find themselves. More about this book >
Jean Stafford was married to the poet Robert Lowell, Winner of the NBA for Poetry in 1960.
Stafford was a Fiction Finalist again in 1970 for her Collected Stories, which also won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction that year.
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