About May Sarton
May Sarton was the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, a Belgian and American novelist, poet, and memoirist. Although her best work is strongly personalized with erotic female imagery, she resisted the label of "lesbian writer", preferring to convey the universality of human love. Sarton won a scholarship to Vassar College but felt drawn to the theater after seeing Eva Le Gallienne perform in The Cradle Song. When she was seventeen, she published a series of sonnets in December 1930, some of which were featured in her first published volume, Encounter in April (1937). It was within this environment and community that she published her first novel, The Single Hound (1938).
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