American · 1915–1979
Jean Stafford won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her Collected Stories, though she had stopped writing fiction years earlier. The American author's three novels established her as a master stylist; her stories for The New Yorker refined that reputation. Stafford wrote about women navigating social constraints with ironic precision. Her marriages—to Robert Lowell and others—provided material she transformed into art.