Jean Stafford (1915–1979) was an award-winning American short-story writer and novelist, whose works were published in The New Yorker and various other literary magazines. Her first novel, Boston Adventure, was a bestseller, and she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her Collected Stories. She had marriages to three prominent writers: Robert Lowell, Oliver Jensen, and A. J. Liebling.
Books
The Mountain Lion
“The Mountain Lion remains a brilliant achievement, an exploration of adolescence to set beside Carson McCullers’s masterwork The Member of the Wedding.” —Joyce Carol Oates