Happy Birthday Jean Stafford!

I was listening to Morning Edition on Maine Public Radio this morning and heard Garrison Keillor talk about the Pulitzer Prize winning author Jean Stafford during his Writer's Almanac segment. I can't say that I have read her works or had even heard of her a year ago but I have learned a lot about her since I discovered that I was selling her former home in the Damariscotta Mills section of Newcastle on Damariscotta Lake. She lived there with her husband, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Robert Lowell, for a time in the 40's. You can listen to the podcast here. So if two Pulitzer Prize winning authors lived in the house you can just imagine how much creative energy the home is waiting to bestow on its next owner.

Tom Field