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a minute to do anything since except to proceed along whatever line I was interested in. I've always kept up with what was going on in the world of painting and art. What interested me really - and I've thought of this in retrospect - was that these painters of that period had also been touched with this idea that it's important how the other half lives.

I knew some literary figures of New York in the pre and post-World War period. I knew Mr. McClure and Miss Viola Roseboro. I didn't know Mr. McClure very well. He was a grown up man and I was a girl, but it was a small world and if you minded your p's and q's and got around, you met a lot of people. Of course one of my close friends was Ernest Poole. He and his wife were great friends of mine. Again, I don't know how I met them. Somebody introduced us. They said, “Come to supper next Sunday night.” You did and then you were friends. You went together and did this and that. You found you were interested in the same things and had similar tastes. Ernest Poole wrote one of the first - perhaps the first - great novel of social significance, The Harbor. He got the Pulitzer Prize on his next one which was called The Family. It was the first novel to which a Pulitzer Prize was given. I'm not sure that the Pulitzer Prize wasn't founded between the two novels.

There was another man called Leroy Scott. There was a