Barbara Newhall Follett, vanished literary child prodigy

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Today marks the 101st birthday of Barbara Newhall Follett, the literary child prodigy who published at 13 and disappeared at 25.

"Vanishing Act" by Paul Collins

In a New Hampshire apartment during the winter of 1923, this typewritten notice was fastened squarely against a closed door: Nobody may come into this room if the door is shut tight (if it is sh

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