Elizabeth Sargent (1920-2017)
In 1964 she published her first book, The African Boy, under the name E. N. Sargent. The poet and critic Kenneth Rexroth wrote in The New York Times Book Review in 1964 that the book was “certainly the equal of most contemporary African verse in technical mastery and convincing air,” even if much of the material presumably “comes from anthropological reading rather than experience.”
Portrait by Kenn Duncan
