It was published a year later in 1928, also receiving critical acclaim in many literary publications. įollett's next novel, The Voyage of the Norman D., was based on her experience on a coastal schooner in Nova Scotia. Her opinion was sought out by radio stations and she was asked to review other children's books, such as Now We Are Six by British author A. Due to this early success, Barbara was hailed by some as a child genius. With the help and guidance of Follett's father, The House Without Windows was accepted and published in 1927 by Knopf to critical acclaim by The New York Times, the Saturday Review, and H. Though later that year her manuscript burned in a house fire, Follett rewrote the entire story and her father, an editor at the Knopf publishing house, supervised its publication in 1927.
The story concerned a young girl, named Eepersip, who runs away from home and family to live happily in nature, complete with animal friends. In 1923, when Follett was only eight years old, she began writing The Adventures of Eepersip, later titled The House Without Windows, as a birthday present for her mother using a small portable typewriter she had been given. Somewhat a child of nature, Barbara's stories and poems often dealt with the natural world and the wilderness. Barbara was an imaginative and intelligent child: by age seven she had begun to put to paper her own imaginary world, Farksolia, and to develop its language, Farksoo. Schooled at home by her mother, Barbara showed an early aptitude for reading and writing, as she began to write her own poetry by the age of four. She had an elder half-sister, named Grace, from her father's first marriage, as well as a younger sister, Sabra Follett, later Sabra Follett Meservey - the first woman to be admitted as a graduate student to Princeton University, in 1961. Early life īarbara Newhall Follett was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on 4 March 1914, to Wilson Follett, a literary editor, critic and university lecturer, and children's writer Helen Thomas Follett.
In December 1939, aged 25, Follett reportedly became depressed with her marriage and walked out of her apartment, never to be seen again. Her next novel, The Voyage of the Norman D., received critical acclaim when she was fourteen. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in January 1927, when she was twelve years old. Barbara Newhall Follett (Ma – disappeared December 7, 1939) was an American child prodigy novelist.
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