May Sarton Bibliography

Nonfiction

• I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography (1959)
• Plant Dreaming Deep (1968)
• Journal of a Solitude (1973)
• A World of Light (1976)
• The House by the Sea (1977)
• Recovering: A Journal (1980)
• Writings on Writing (1980)
• May Sarton: A Self-Portrait (1982)
• At Seventy: A Journal (1984)
• After the Stroke (1988)
• Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year (1992)
• Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year (1993)
• At Eighty-Two (1996)

Novels

• The Single Hound (1938)
• The Bridge of Years (1946)
• The Return of Corporal Greene (1946)
• Shadow of a Man (1950)
• A Shower of Summer Days (1952)
• Faithful are the Wounds (1955)
• The Birth of a Grandfather (1957)
• The Fur Person (1957)
• The Small Room (1961)
• Joanna and Ulysses (1963)
• Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1965)
• Miss Pickthorn and Mr. Hare (1966)
• The Poet and the Donkey (1969)
• Kinds of Love (1970)
• As We Are Now (1973)
• Crucial Conversations (1975)
• A Reckoning (1978)
• Anger (1982)
• The Magnificent Spinster (1985)
• The Education of Harriet Hatfield (1989)

Poetry

• Encounter in April (1937)
• Inner Landscape (1939)
• The Lion and the Rose (1948)
• The Land of Silence (1953)
• In Time Like Air (1958)
• Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine (1961)
• A Private Mythology (1966)
• As Does New Hampshire (1967)
• A Grain of Mustard Seed (1971)
• A Durable Fire (1972)
• Collected Poems, 1930-1973 (1974)
• Selected Poems of May Sarton (edited by Serena Sue Hilsinger and Lois Brynes, 1978)
• Halfway to Silence (1980)
• Letters from Maine (1984)
• Collected Poems, 1930-1993 (1993)
• Coming Into Eighty (1994) Winner of the Levinson Prize
• From May Sarton's Well: Writings of May Sarton (edited by Edith Royce Schade, 1999)

Children's Books

• Punch's Secret (1974)
• A Walk Through the Woods (1976)
• Plays
• The Music Box Bird (1993)

Letters

• Letters
• May Sarton: Selected Letters (1997)
• Dear Juliette: Letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley (1999)