Jean Stafford was born in Covina, California, in 1915. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1936, spent a year at the University of Heidelberg on a fellowship and did brief graduate study at the University of Iowa.
Her first novel, Boston Adventure (1944), was a bestseller. Her stories, polished and sharp, often feature lonely or marginal characters. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (1969) won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in White Plains, New York, in 1979.
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