Jean Stafford

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Jean Stafford (* 1. July 1915 in Covina , California ; † 26. March 1979 in White Plains , New York ) was an American writer that not only the O. Henry Award , but also the Pulitzer Prize awarded .

biography

The daughter of the author of a pulp magazine studied after school at the University of Colorado and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and then in 1936 with a Master of Arts (MA). During this time she also stayed in Heidelberg on a scholarship .

In 1940 she married the almost two years younger poet Robert Lowell against the will of his family and published her debut novel Boston Adventure in 1944 , for which she received a Guggenheim scholarship in 1945 and which was followed by another novel in 1947 with The Mountain Lion . Jean Stafford's years of marriage with Lowell were most recently marked by alcoholism and depression and subsequent hospital stays. After divorcing Robert Lowell in 1948, she married her second husband, Oliver Jensen, a writer and photographer with Life magazine , in 1950 . The divorce took place this marriage but already 1952. 1952 she published with The Catherine Wheel also her third novel, the 1953 under the title Children Are Bored on Sunday a collection of short stories, and in 1954 the novel A Winter's Tale followed. For the story In the Zoo , which appeared in The New Yorker , she received the prestigious O. Henry Award in 1955. In 1959 she was third married to AJ Liebling , a journalist for The New Yorker magazine . However, in 1963 this marriage ended after just a few years.

After another collection of short stories under the title Bad Characters (1964) she published a biography of the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald , the alleged murderer of John F. Kennedy , in 1966 under the title A Mother in History . She also worked as a teacher in the 1960s. Most recently, in 1969, Collected Stories was a third collection of short stories that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1970. Some of her works such as Die Geschwister (1958), Das Katharinenrad (1959), A Winter's Tale and Other Stories (1960) and Rattlesnake Time (1965) were published in the German translation by Elisabeth Schnack . She also wrote numerous reviews herself in The New York Review of Books .

In 1970 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

The last years of her life were also marked by excessive smoking and alcoholism. Eventually she stopped eating and eventually died of cardiac arrest .

Quotes

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Jean Stafford was also known for quotes about herself, their marriages and their life as a writer such as:

  • “ A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. ”
  • " For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7. " ( For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7. )
  • " For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer. "
  • " From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect. "
  • “He did what I always needed to do about me: and that was that he dominated me.” ( He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me. )
  • "I'm getting more pathetic every hour." ( I am growing meaner by the hour. )
  • " Irony , so my feeling is a very high form of morality ." ( Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality. )
  • “You say you hope I will be remembered as the best novelist of my generation. I let you know now and completely that this means absolutely nothing to me. "( You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing. )

Works

  • The siblings . Novel. Translated from the American by Elisabeth Schnack. Benzinger Verlag, Zurich / Cologne 1958.
  • The Katharinenrad . Translated from the American by Elisabeth Schnack. Benzinger Verlag, Zurich / Kön 1959.
  • A winter fairy tale and other stories . Translated from the American by Elisabeth Schnack. Benzinger Verlag, Zurich / Cologne 1960.
  • Rattlesnake Time. Translated from the American by Elisabeth Schnack. Benzinger Verlag, Zurich / Cologne 1965.
  • The mountain lioness. Novel. Translation by Adelheid and Jürgen Dormagen. Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich 2020.

Background literature

  • David Roberts: Jean Stafford, a Biography (1988)
  • Charlotte Margolis Goodman: Jean Stafford: The Savage Heart (1990)
  • Ann Hulbert: The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford (1992).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Collected Stories (Google Books)
  2. ^ Contributions by Jean Stafford in The New York Review of Books
  3. ^ Members: Jean Stafford. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Finstere Kinderherzen. Retrieved July 12, 2020 .
  5. ^ Jean Stafford, a biography (Google Books)
personal data
SURNAME Stafford, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Covina , California
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1979
Place of death White Plains , New York