Ford Foundation

TO committed herself to producing a huge novel during her tenure of a Ford Foundation grant (for two years from 1959). The burden of this commitment brought physical and mental collapse in early 1961. The...

TO 's award of a creative writing fellowship at Stanford (1 April 1955) opened a new phase of her life, of academic positions in which she was paid to write or teach (or both). Nevertheless...

In the early 1950s TO submitted stories, mostly about family life (in such unacceptable manifestations as a husband's death, a woman's desire, a retarded son), to the Ladies' Home Journal, which seems not...

The original story became a Ford Foundation TV play and a Reader's Digest book, bringing a jackpot in money and fan letters from all over North America. The New York Herald Tribune called the...