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Barbara: The Unconscious Autobiography of a Child Genius
She was educated at home in New England by literary parents, Wilson and Helen Follett, and at the age of four she began to type out her own imaginative stories. By thirteen she had already published a novel (The House Without Windows, Knopf, 1927), and with the publication of her second novel a year later, she seemed launched on a literary career. Then the events of her in
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Hardcover
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146 pages
Published
1966
by University of North Carolina Press
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This is an absolutely fascinating book about someone I had never, ever heard of. A collection mainly of her letters, poems and stories, held together by the narrative of the biographer, the book traces the life of Barbara Newhall Follett from her earliest writings to her mysterious (and still unsolved) death at age 25.
There was something absolutely tragic about the entire thing--watching her progress from brilliant and happy to brilliant and successful to brilliant and trapped in a terrible mar ...more
There was something absolutely tragic about the entire thing--watching her progress from brilliant and happy to brilliant and successful to brilliant and trapped in a terrible mar ...more
This work is part biography and textual analysis. While credited as editor Mr. McCurdy is doing much more than this. He provides us a look into the life and the unpublished writings of Ms. Follett. With help of Barbara's mother he has worked through family photos, letters, and the ill-fated Barbara's own words to uncover the mystery of both the child and the young woman who was fated to die too soon.
As those of us who have followed her tragic story know she was entranced with the desire to esca ...more
As those of us who have followed her tragic story know she was entranced with the desire to esca ...more
The most imaginative writing from a young person; her correspondence is amazing and brimming with life and strong opinions and longing ... her life a mystery never solved. Great piece in Lapham's Quarterly about her here:
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/essay...
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Barbara Newhall Follett (born March 4, 1914 – December 7, 1939 (disappeared)) was an American child prodigy novelist. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in 1927 when she was thirteen years old. Her next novel, The Voyage of the Norman D., received critical acclaim when she was fourteen.
In 1939 she became depressed with her marriage and walked out of her apartment with just t ...more
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