From June 26 to July 11, 2015 Bennington College hosted an ensemble of 4 students and 3 professionals creating an original script about Follett’s life and disappearance. See pictures and posts about our Summer 2015 workshop here: reasonsforleavingblog.tumblr.com

 

About Barbara Newhall Follett: Barbara Newhall Follett was widely regarded as a genius. As a young teen she published two successful books, A House Without Windows, the story of a young girl who leaves her family to live in the woods, and The Voyage of Norman D. about her time aboard a schooner. When she was 14 her father—who was also her editor--left the family for another woman. After he left, Follett was unable to recapture the success of her first two books. She continued writing and a common theme of her stories was women disengaging from mainstream society. In 1939 after a fight with her husband she left her apartment with $30 and a notebook and was never seen or heard from again. Read a full bio at farksolia.org