Poetic Obituaries: [Elizabeth L. Sturz] wrote radio plays

for the BBC, including "ballad-operas" intended to present American life to British listeners, that starred Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives and others. Under the name Elizabeth Lyttleton, her mother's surname, she wrote several books, as well as poetry that appeared in Saturday Review and elsewhere, and interviewed American personalities like Martha Ledbetter, the wife of the blues singer Lead Belly.

from The New York Times: Elizabeth L. Sturz, Salvaged Troubled Lives, Dies at 93

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