BARBARA NEWHALL FOLLETT
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Barbara Newhall Follett was a bit of a literary genius in the Jazz Age. At age 13, she released a novel that received positive reviews. Everyone said she would become the next great American author, and if it weren’t for her father, she definitely would have. She and her mother were left destitute after he fled with a younger woman. When she was 16 years old, she began working as a typewriter and never wrote again.
After a decade of this, Follett got into a fight with her husband in 1939, stormed out of their home, and vanished without a trace. He didn’t attempt very hard to find her, and it wasn’t until 1966 that the authorities and the media were even informed. She might have passed away, but she also might have vanished expertly. Maybe we even recognize her now as someone else?