May Sarton
May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton ( (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), an American poetess, novelist and memoirist. Sarton was born in Wondelgem, Belgium (today a part of the city of Ghent). Her parents were science historian George Sarton and his wife, the English artist Mabel Eleanor Elwes. When German troops invaded Belgium after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, her family fled to Ipswich, England, where Sarton’s maternal grandmother lived.
May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton ( (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), an American poetess, novelist and memoirist. Sarton was born in Wondelgem, Belgium (today a part of the city of Ghent). Her parents were science historian George Sarton and his wife, the English artist Mabel Eleanor Elwes. When German troops invaded Belgium after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, her family fled to Ipswich, England, where Sarton’s maternal grandmother lived.
