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Life Timeline (1940)

"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", dedicated to Reeves McCullers and Marguerite and Lamar Smith, published by Houghton Mifflin on June 4. With Reeves leaves Fayetteville in mid-June for New York City and moves into apartment at 321 W. 11th St. in Greenwich Village. Meeets Klaus and Erika Mann, W.H. Auden, and Annemarie Clarac-Schwarzenbach in July. Sells "Reflections in a Golden Eye" to Harper's Bazaar in August. Attends Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for two weeks in August where she meets Louis Untermeyer and Eudira Welty. Visits editor Robert Linscott and the Houghton Mifflin offices in Boston in late August. In Septemeber, separates from Reeves and moves with George Davis and W.H. Auden to 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights. "Reflects in a Golden Eye" published in October and November Harper's Bazaar. Ill during winter, returns to Columbus to recooperate where she faces negative hometown reations to "Reflections in a Golden Eye". "Look Homeward, Americans" published in December Vogue.

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