Jean Stafford (1915-1979), though better known as a short story writer, also published three novels. Her second, 'The Mountain Lion' appeared in 1947, not long before the collapse of her first, unhappily tempestuous marriage with the poet Robert Lowell (1917-1977). Stafford herself had been born in Covina, California, the youngest of four children, later moving … Continue reading The Mountain Lion – Jean Stafford →