For Atlas Obscura, Abby Norman retraces Barbara Newhall Follett’s mysterious history:
She is called a child prodigy, a literary luminary, a spirit of nature. So why have so few people heard of her or read her work?
For one, Barbara Newhall Follett disappeared without a trace when she was 25 years old.
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