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1939
		1939 - Begins writing and submitting short stories
1942
		1942 - Fails to graduate from Greenwich High School-moves back to New York and enters Franklin School
		1942 - Works as a copyboy for The New Yorker
1943
		1943 - Graduates from Franklin School
		1943 - First published work "The Walls Are Cold" in Decade of Short Stories
1944
		1944 - "A Mink of One's Own" and "The Shape of Things" published in Decade of Short Stories
1945
		June - "Miriam" published in Mademoiselle [more...]
		1945 - Signs contract with Random House for his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms [more...]
1946
		Spring - Meets Newton Arvin
		Fall - Moves away from his mother's apartment due to her alcoholism, but returns a few months later
1947
		Summer - Completes Other Voices, Other Rooms while spending the summer in Nantucket [more...]