The Women's Review of Books, May 1st, 1997
In the spring of 1991, May Sarton received a letter from Margot Peters, a biographer who had written on Charlotte Bronte, the Barrymores and George Bernard Shaw. Because Peters now wanted to work with a living author and admired much of Sarton's work, she was asking permission to write Sarton's biography. Then 79 years old, Sarton had already coped with breast cancer, diverticulitis, heart fibrillation, a collapsed lung and a stroke. But a biography? She had dreaded its inevitable arrival. "I know my biographer will be my enemy," she once said. She consented nonetheless, stipulating only tha...
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