Children Are Bored on Sunday

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1953).

Price: $225.00

Hardcover. First edition. Modest wear, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, with the ownership signature of Peter Taylor. Some pencil notes in Peter Taylor's hand, with a note from Eleanor laid in noting that fact. Stafford was married to Robert Lowell; Lowell and Taylor were very close friends and colleagues and were influential on each other's careers. They both attended Kenyon College where they studied under Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom.

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Item #355718 Children Are Bored on Sunday. Jean STAFFORD.

Jean Stafford
birth name: Jean Stafford
born: 7/1/1915
died: 3/26/1979
nationality: USA

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Biography

American short-story writer and novelist noted for her deft development of fictional characters. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

Stafford was married to Robert Lowell, and later to A.J. Liebling. Her early books are not rare, but are scarce in nice condition. They generally are not very expensive. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Stories (1969) isn't expensive either. However, very cheap paper was used, and if you find one where the pages aren't yellowed, you should probably buy it (the same is true of Larry McMurtry's Terms of Endearment, which suffers from the same problem).more