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Life Timeline (1946-1947)

1946		Part 1 of "The Member of the Wedding" published in the January Harper's Bazaar. Reeves Promoted to Captain in February. Book Basement, bookstore owned by John Zeigler and Edwin Peacock, opens in Charleston on Carson's birthday, February 19. Reeves granted physical disability discharge from Army on March 16. "The Member of the Wedding", dedicated to Elizabeth Ames, published by Houghton Mifflin on March 19. Returns to Yaddo from March 23 to May 31. Awarded second Guggenheim Fellowship in mid-April. Makes plans with Reeves to live in France. Spends several weeks in June on Nantucket with Tennessee Williams and begins dramatic adaptation of "The Member of the Wedding". Returns to Nyack from Nantucket on June 29. Carson and Reeves return to Nantucket on July 4. Reeves stays only a few days, Carson remains until midsummer. Sails with Reeves for Europe on November 22 on the Ile de France.
1947		During April, Carson goes on skiing expedition in Italian Tyrol and visits Natalia Danesi Murray in Rome. Stage version of "The Member of the Wedding" entangled in lawsuit in May; plans trip to Key West with Tennessee Williams. Meets attorney Floria Lasky. Departs for Paris with Reeves in late summer. Suffers severe stroke in August; hospitalized in the American Hospital in Paris. In November has second serious stroke in Paris, which destroys lateral vision in right eye and paralyzes left side; hospitalized for three weeks at the American Hospital in Paris under the care of Dr. Robert Myers. Carson and Reeves flown home on stretchers from Paris on December 1; Reeves suffers from delirium tremens, Carson from paralysis of strooke. Hospitalized at Neurological Institute at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital from December 1 to December 25. Quick magazine names Carson on the best postwar writers in America on December 17.

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