May Sarton

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1966
  • Latest Book:
    November 2017
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Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Miss Pickthorn and Mister Hare

  • Miss Pickthorn and Mr. Hare

  • Fur Person

    This enchanting story and classic of cat literature is drawn from the true adventures of Tom Jones, May Sarton s own cat. Prior to making the author s acquaintance, he is a fiercely independent, nameless Cat About Town. Growing tired of his vagabond ...

  • A Grain of a Mustard Seed

  • As We Are Now

    "I am not mad, only old. . . . I am in a concentration camp for the old."

    So begins May Sarton's short, swift blow of a novel, about the powerlessness of the old and the rage it can bring. As We Are Now tells the story of Caroline Spencer, a 7...

  • Crucial Conversations

    "May Sarton's provocative novel is about a wife who has outgrown her husband, and after twenty-seven years of marriage decides that she has had enough. . . . she is altogether believable." ―The Atlantic

    Reed and Poppy Whitelaw's conventional...

  • The Small Room

    Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job, Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women's college and shortly finds herself in the thick of a crisis: she had discovered a dishonest act committed by a brilliant student who is a protégée of a po...

  • Journal of a Solitude

    In this, her bestselling journal, May Sarton writes with keen observation and emotional courage of both inner and outer worlds: a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people, ideasâ,”and throughout everything, her spiritua...

  • A Reckoning

    When Laura Spelman learns that she will not get well, she looks on this last illness as a journey during which she must reckon up her life, give up the nonessential, and concentrate on what she calls "the real connections." The heart of the story is ...



  • Recovering

    Sarton suffered a brutal review of her last novel, personal problems, and a mastectomy in 1979 and this journal reveals how she drew on her inner strength to surmount this series of crises and regain her creative powers....

  • Anger

    The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments.

    Emotional and forthright, Anna battles against Ned's crippling reserve. In the clash of these two strong...

  • The Bridge of Years

    "Beautifully wrought . . . deeply felt and significant in theme."? Saturday Review This novel, first published in 1946, is one of May Sarton's earliest and, some critics think, one of her best. It takes place during the years between the world wars a...

  • The Magnificent Spinster

    Sarton's 17th novel explores the realities and reverberations of a 50-year friendship between two remarkable women that ended with the death of Jane Reid. It is relived because Cam, in her seventies, decides to celebrate "the magnificent spinster" in...

  • Joanna and Ulysses

    For Joanna the month's holiday was to be an escape, a chance to paint and think and release the bitter memories of the war in Greece and of her mother's death.

    She had chosen the dazzling island of Santorini, remote and inaccessible as her own...

  • A World of Light

    "Its revelations, its tender frankness, its acutely sensitive observations recommend [this book] to Sarton's growing legion of readers." ? Choice

    May Sarton's celebrations in this book center around the friendships that flowered in her life from a...

  • The Birth of a Grandfather

    May Sarton’s 7th novel is about marriage, family, life’s cycles, and the regeneration of love Frances and Sprig Wyeth have come to the old Wyeth house in Maine for the summer. In a house filled with lively members of her husband’s extended fam...

  • The Education of Harriet Hatfield

    “Harriet Hatfield begins a new life at the age of 60 after her lover of 30 years has died and left her comfortably well off. But when Harriet opens a bookstore for women in a blue-collar neighborhood of Boston, she is viciously attacked for her ...

  • Sarton Selected

  • The Single Hound

    This is the story of two poets, one an elderly Belgian woman known to the world as Jean Latour, the other a young Englishman. When Mark Taylor finds his life and art broken up by his love for an older, married woman, he turns for help to the poems of...



  • Endgame

    “A testament to the joys of nature from a courageous and loving woman . . . her cats, birds, garden and visitors keep her ecstatically anchored in life” (Publishers Weekly). “I always imagined a journal that would take me through my s...

  • Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

    “The plot of this short novel is deceptively simple, the mood subtle, the feeling intense. And the music of Miss Sarton’s prose leaves compelling echoes in one’s mind.” ―New York Times Book Review

    May Sarton's ninth novel explores a ...

  • Encore

    The bestselling author and newly minted octogenarian “demonstrates that old age can be a vibrant and liberating experience . . . fearless and triumphant” (Publishers Weekly). On the second day of her 80th year, May Sarton began a new jo...

  • Kinds of Love

    Friendship, marriage, and intertwined lives in a small New Hampshire town. Christina Chapman and her husband Cornelius, both past seventy, are "summer people"? people who come to rural New England for the summer months and go home to the city when th...

  • A Shower of Summer Days

    "At long last in early June the Gordons were expected home at Dene's Court, the house in Ireland which Violet Dene Gordon had inherited." So begins May Sarton's evocative early novel about Violet Gordon's return, after thirty years, to her childhood ...

  • The House by the Sea

    This is the first journal Sarton wrote after she moved in 1973 from New Hampshire to the seacoast of Maine. Here she found the peace and aloneness she sought--and partly feared. The journal records the renewing of her life and work in this place....

  • I Knew a Phoenix

    Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood and describes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her coming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a writer....

  • Plant Dreaming Deep

    The author’s tribute to the 18th-century New England farmhouse she called home: “[A] tender and often poignant book by a woman of many insights” (The New York Times Book Review). In Plant Dreaming Deep, Sarton shares an intensely personal ...

  • The Poet and the Donkey

    "May Sarton conducts us on a small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he can no longer write . . . and a young, mischievous female donkey who . . ...

  • Shadow of a Man

    A Harvard grad student falls in love with an older woman in this beautifully written novel set in Paris Francis Chabrier is a 26-year-old graduate student still looking for direction when his mother dies. The reverberations of her sudden demise are ...



  • May Sarton

    This transcript from the film World of Light: A Portrait of May Sarton illuminates the life and writing of the poet while celebrating the joys of creativity, love, and solitude In June of 1979, May Sarton answered the questions of two filmmakers and ...

  • Faithful Are the Wounds

    A professor’s suicide is the catalyst for this novel about politics and ideals set at Harvard during the 1950s When Harvard professor Edward Cavan commits suicide by throwing himself under a subway train, his death sets off shock waves both across...

  • Dear Juliette

    In these extraordinary letters, we see May Sarton in all her complexities and are privy to her tangled relationship with Juliette Huxley, whom May considered her muse and the greatest love of her life. May Sarton's love for Juliette Huxley, ignited t...

  • The Fur Person, Gift Edition

    A delightful, whimsical tale―one of the most popular books for cat lovers ever written, now newly illustrated.

    May Sarton's fictionalized account of her cat Tom Jones's life and adventures prior to making the author's acquaintance begins wit...

  • The Novels of May Sarton Volume One

    Three luminous novels from a New York Times"bestselling author and National Book Award finalist whose “prose leaves compelling echoes in one’s mind” (The New York Times Book Review). Throughout her long and acclaimed career, May Sarton refuse...

  • Sarton Kinds of Love

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    Friendship, marriage, and intertwined lives in a small New Hampshire town.

    Christina Chapman and her husband Cornelius, both past seventy, are "summer people"â,”people who come to rural New England for the summer months and go home to the ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

May Sarton has published 35 books.

May Sarton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Novels of May Sarton Volume One, was published in November 2017.

The first book by May Sarton, Miss Pickthorn and Mister Hare, was published in November 1966.

No. May Sarton does not write books in series.
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