Sargeson continued to nurture and promote New Zealand literary talent, as he had with "Speaking for Ourselves", most notably by inviting the young author and poet Janet Frame to live in the former army hut on his property in 1955, not long after her discharge from Seacliff Lunatic Asylum. She lived and worked in the army hut from April 1955 to July 1956, producing her first full-length novel "Owls Do Cry" (Pegasus, 1957), which is considered a masterpiece of New Zealand writing. Later, she wrote about this period in her autobiography, "An Angel at my Table". He was also a friend and mentor to other young writers such as Maurice Duggan and John Reece Cole.