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Life Timeline (1957-1960)

1957		"Mick" published in February Literary Cavalcade. The Member of the Wedding opens at the Royal Court Theatre, London on February 16. Poem, "The Stone Is Not Stone", published in July Mademoiselle. The Square Root of Wonderful goes into rehearsal on September 2. Ten-day pre-Broadway run at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, begins on October 10. "Playwright Tells of Pangs" published on October 13 in the Philadelphia Inquirer. George Keathley called in on October 23 to replace director Jose Quintero for production of The Sqaure Root of Wonderful. The Square Root of Wonderful opens at the National Theatre on Broadway on October 30. The Square Root of Wonderful closes on December 7 after forty-five performances.
1958		Suffers depression after The Square Root of Wonderful closes. Begins therapy with Dr. Mary Mercer and undergoes a series of operations on left arm during February. Makes sound recording in May with Jean Stein vanden Heuvel entitled "Carson McCullers Reads from The Member of the Wedding and Other Works." Lectures at Columbia University in July and writes "A Personal Preface" to The Square Root of Wonderful. Participates in a panel discussion on drama in the television production of "Lamp Unto My Feet" on August 19. In December, The Member of the Wedding, translated by Andre Bay and William Hope, produced in French at the Alliance Francaise in Paris.
1959		Undergoes two operation on left arm and wrist. Two more operations scheduled for the following year. Unable to work on manuscripts, writes children's verse. Attends dinner meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters on January 21 and meets Isak Dinesen. Later gives luncheon for Dinesen, Arthur Miller, and Marilyn Monroe. "The Flowering Dream: Notes on Writing" appears in December Esquire.
1960		Application for a thrid Guggenheim fellowship denied in April. In July Edward Albee approaches Carson with the idea to adapt The Ballad of the Sad Cafe for the stage. Finished Clock Without Hands on December 1, almost twenty years after beginning the novel.

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