May Sarton, American poet, novelist and memoirist (died 1995)

May Sarton

Belgian-American poet, novelist and memoirist, Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 – 1995)

May Sarton was the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, a Belgian-American novelist, poet, and memoirist. Although her best work is strongly personalised with erotic female imagery, she resisted the label of ‘lesbian writer’, preferring to convey the universality of human love.