Sarah payne stewart biography

Sarah Payne Stuart grew up in Concord MA, under the influence of the writings of Louisa May Alcott. For a brief, terrifying period, she called her mother "Marmee" and emptied the dishwasher without being asked. At age 18, Stuart fled Concord for Harvard, where she avoided classes and became one of the first women editors of the Lampoon. Upon graduation, she took a job working against prisoners, to the horror of her liberal friends, as a paralegal for the Massachusetts Department of Correction (when she accepted the job she thought it has something to do with correcting forms). She got married at age 25 to Charlie Stuart, and became an advertising copywriter, writing ads like "Get a Free Gift with a Two Hundred Dollar Deposit!" After a year of marriage, Stuart and her husband bought the house of her dreams in Boston, only to split up two days later. On the positive side, she never had to finish the thank-you notes. The next year, Charlie returned, and they moved to New York where Stuart had two sons one year apart, and wrote her first novel, which was a whole lo

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