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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Child prodigy novelist Barbara Newhall Follett published her debut at 12, then vanished at 25, leaving an unsolved ...

Alan Edmunds, a psychologist, librettist and the writer of "Perfect World," a musical that tells the story of literary child prodigy Barbara Follet, sits inside the El Portal Theatre. (Carlin Stiehl / ...

In the world of child prodigies, novelists are the rarest breed. Barbara Newhall Follett, born in Hanover, N.H., in 1914, fit the bill. By the time she was 9 years old she had completed her first ...