TW: mentions of su*cide
At the age of eight, Barbara Newhall Follett wrote her first novel, inventing her own mythical world and language. She was a published author by age 12. But, child prodigy Barbara Follett would go on to vanish without a trace. When she was 25, after a fight with her husband, she grabbed her coat, a notebook, and $30 in cash, and left their Boston home, never to be seen again. Today on Found Objects, I tell her story.
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