Yaddo

She was alone, and the previous day had asked a visiting friend not to stay. Her literary papers went by sale to the Swiss Literary Archives at Berne, and the writers' retreat of Yaddo

Yaddo was a foundation that gave room and board to writers to allow them quiet, quality writing time. It provided SP with a place of respite, where she could return to her writing after a...

FOC worked as a teaching assistant while she studied for her MFA, but she put most of her energies into her potential future as a writer. She applied for several college teaching positions, just...

FOC wrote from Yaddo asking Elizabeth McKee to be her agent; McKee accepted, and became her agent and friend for the rest of her life.

PH arrived at the writers' retreat of Yaddo at Saratoga Springs, New York, for a stay of about three months.