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Thursday, March 5, 2015

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.

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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