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.
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Detained in Ghana
March 4, 1976
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Touch and Go
April 5, 1973
Groups, Gimmicks, and Instant Gurus by William R. Coulson
The Pit by Gene Church, by Conrad D. Carnes
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Living It Out
August 10, 1972
Piaf by Simone Berteaut
Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets by Marcel Haedrich, translated by Charles Lam Markmann
Paris Was Yesterday by Janet Flanner
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Sensuous Women
September 23, 1971
Kate Chopin, A Critical Biography
by Per Seyersted
The Complete Works of Kate Chopin
edited by Per Seyersted, Foreword by Edmund Wilson
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School of the Arts
January 7, 1971
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Birdbath
December 3, 1970
A White House Diary by Lady Bird Johnson
A Woman of Quality: Eleanor Roosevelt by Stella K. Hershan
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Gooney Bird
October 8, 1970
The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh with an Introduction by William Jovanovich
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Survivor
October 23, 1969
Only One Year by Svetlana Alliluyeva, translated by Paul Chavchvadze
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Spirits
April 24, 1969
Being Geniuses Together by Kay Boyle, by Robert McAlmon
Those Remarkable Cunards, Emerald and Nancy by Daphne Fielding
Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel edited by Hugh Ford
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Wolfe Hunting
May 9, 1968
Thomas Wolfe, A Biography by Andrew Turnbull
The Letters of Thomas Wolfe to His Mother edited by C. Hugh Holman, edited by Sue Fields Ross
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Lioness
January 18, 1968
Titania: The Biography of Isak Dinesen by Parmenia Migel
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This Happy Breed
December 23, 1965
The Gentle Americans by Helen Howe
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The Collector
October 14, 1965
Mrs. Jack by Louise Hall Tharp
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Living through the War
September 10, 1964
Divided Loyalties by Janet Tessier du Cros
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A Sense of the Past
March 19, 1964
New York Landmarks edited by Alan Burnham