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Life Timeline (1948-1949)

1948		In January named one of the ten most deserving women in America for 1947 and receives "Mademoiselle" Merit Award. Reeves moves from Nyack to New York City in February. Write February 28 letter to Columbus public library protesting its racial segregation policy. Attempts suicide in March; hospitalized briefly at Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in Manhattan. From spring through fall hires part-time secretary for dictation and revises play "The Member of the Wedding". Audrey Wood becomes Carson's agent in spring, replacing Ann Watkins. Attends national psychiatric convetion in Washington D.C. on May 19, and meets Harvey Cleckly. Reconciles with Reeves in August. Carson's health worsens. "How I Began to Write" published in September "Mademoiselle". "The Mortgaged Heart" and "When We Are Lost" (poems) published in literary journal "New Directions". Publicly supports Harry Truman for president.
1949		Spends January with Reeves in apartment at 105 Thompson Street in Manhattan. Returns with moter to Georgia on March 13 for two weeks, first to Columbus, then to Macon on March 17 to visit cousin Jordan Massee. Returns to New York City on March 21 because of controversy regarding Elizabeth Ames (Yaddo Director) and the Communist party. On way to New York City, interviewed in Atlanta by Ralph McGill of the "Atlanta Constitution". On May 13, visits with Reeves friends Edwin Peacock and John Zeigler in Charleston, South Carolina, continuing aborted trip south. "The Member of the Wedding" (play) published by "New Directions". "Home for Christmas" published in December "Mademoiselle". "Loneliness, and American Malady" published in This Week Magazine of the December 19 Herald Tribune. The Member of the Wedding opens at the Walnut Theatre on December 22 in Philadelphia for its pre-Broadway run.

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