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Stafford's personal life was often marked by unhappiness. Her first marriage, to the brilliant but mentally unstable poet Robert Lowell , left her with lingering emotional scars. A second marriage also ended in divorce from '' Life '' magazine photographer Oliver Jensen . Stafford enjoyed a brief period of domestic happiness with her third husband, A. J. Liebling , a prominent writer for '' The New Yorker ''. After his death, she virtually ceased writing fiction. For many years Stafford suffered from Alcoholism and Depression . She died in White Plains , New York in 1979, and was buried in Green River Cemetery, East Hampton, New York .


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