Doris Grumbach News Today

I hope it isn’t too late to recognize an important woman, Doris Grumbach, the writer. She lived for many years in Sargentville with her partner Sybil Pike. Doris died in

Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022.

Grumbach died Nov. 4 at 104. She spent nearly two decades living in southern Maine where she wrote many of her memoirs and ran a bookshop.

She explored LGBTQ themes in her novels and offered a frank assessment of old age in her memoirs, which she wrote while living in Sargentville, Maine.

In novels, essays and literary criticism, she wrote about women trapped in repressive families or disintegrating marriages. She also wrote six memoirs.

Tom Fate’s essays present an ethically complicated journey of discovery.

By Thomas Savage