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Barbara Newhall Follett was born on 4 March, 1914 in Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S., is an American novelist. Discover Barbara Newhall Follett's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 110 years old?

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Occupation Novelist
Age 110 years old
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Born 4 March, 1914
Birthday 4 March
Birthplace Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.
Nationality New Hampshire

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Her husband is Nickerson Rogers (m. 1933)

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1914

Barbara Newhall Follett (March 4, 1914 – disappeared December 7, 1939) was an American child prodigy novelist.

Barbara Newhall Follett was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on March 4, 1914, to Wilson Follett, a literary editor, critic and university lecturer, and children's writer Helen Thomas Follett.

1923

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.

The story concerned a young girl, named Eepersip, who runs away from home and family to live happily in nature, complete with animal friends.

1927

Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in January 1927, when she was twelve years old.

Her next novel, The Voyage of the Norman D., received critical acclaim when she was fourteen.

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.

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. L. Mencken.

Due to this early success, Barbara was hailed by some as a child genius.

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. A. Milne.

Follett's next novel, The Voyage of the Norman D., was based on her experience on a coastal schooner in Nova Scotia.

1928

It was published a year later in 1928, also receiving critical acclaim in many literary publications.

However, in the same year, Follett's father abandoned her mother for another woman.

The event was a devastating blow to Follett, who was deeply attached to her father.

Aged 14, she had reached the apex of her life and career.

"My dreams are going through their death flurries. They are dying before the steel javelins and arrows of a world of Time and Money."

Subsequently, her family fell upon hard times.

By the age of 16, as the Great Depression was deepening, Follett was working as a secretary in New York City.

She wrote several more manuscripts, including the novel-length Lost Island and Travels Without a Donkey, a travelogue (the title plays on Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey).

1931

In the summer of 1931, Follett met Nickerson Rogers.

1932

The couple spent the summer of 1932 walking the Appalachian Trail from Katahdin to the Massachusetts border, then sailed to Spain where they continued their walking excursions in Mallorca and through the Swiss Alps.

1934

After settling in Brookline, Massachusetts, the couple married in July 1934.

At this time, Barbara still wrote, but her work was no longer in favor with publishers.

1937

Although initially happy, by 1937 Barbara had started expressing dissatisfaction concerning married life in her letters to close friends, and by 1938 these cracks had widened even further.

Follett soon came to believe that Rogers was being unfaithful to her and became depressed.

1939

In December 1939, aged 25, Follett reportedly became depressed with her marriage and walked out of her apartment, never to be seen again.

According to her husband, on December 7, 1939, Follett left their apartment after a quarrel with $30 in her pocket.

She was never seen again.

Rogers did not report Follett's disappearance to police for two weeks, claiming that he was waiting for her to return.

Four months after notifying police, he requested a missing persons bulletin be issued.

As the bulletin was issued under Follett's married name of "Rogers", it went unnoticed by the media.

1952

In 1952, 13 years after Follett disappeared, her mother Helen began insisting that Brookline Police investigate the matter more thoroughly.

Helen had become suspicious of Rogers after she discovered that he had made little effort to find his wife.

In a letter to Rogers, she wrote: "All of this silence on your part looks as if you had something to hide concerning Barbara's disappearance ... You cannot believe that I shall sit idle during my last few years and not make whatever effort I can to find out whether Bar is alive or dead, whether, perhaps, she is in some institution suffering from amnesia or nervous breakdown."

1961

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.

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.

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.

Somewhat a child of nature, Barbara's stories and poems often dealt with the natural world and the wilderness.

1966

In May 1966, Follett's disappearance received attention upon the publication of Barbara, a collection of Follett's writings compiled by Harold Grier McCurdy in collaboration with Follett's mother.

Follett's body was never found, and law enforcement did not find evidence either indicating or excluding foul play.