Stafford, Jean

Stafford, Jean

(1915–79) writer; born in Covina, Calif. She studied at the University of Colorado (B.A. and M.A. 1936), and at Heidelberg University (Germany) (1936–37). She was married three times, notably to Robert Lowell (1940; divorced 1948), taught at several institutions, and won many awards. She wrote novels, children's fiction, and nonfiction, but is best known for her short stories, as in her Pulitzer Prize-winning work, The Short Stories of Jean Stafford (1969).

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