11 Facts About Margery Latimer

Margery Latimer moved to New York City before finishing college and became involved in its cultural life.

Margery Latimer published a short story in a local paper in 1917.

Margery Latimer withdrew again and moved to New York City, where she started a playwriting course at Columbia University.

Margery Latimer worked on the campus literary magazine as editor and contributor, and became part of a circle of writers there.

Margery Latimer withdrew again in 1923 and returned to New York.

Margery Latimer maintained an intimate correspondence with her mentor until about the time of Gale's marriage in 1928.

Margery Latimer reported on contemporary politics for The New Masses, a radical journal of the twenties.

Margery Latimer lived with poet Kenneth Fearing, her romantic partner, and became friends with writers and artists of the period, such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Walt Kuhn, Meridel Le Sueur, Carl Rakosi, and photographer Carl Van Vechten.

In New York, Margery Latimer met Jean Toomer, a writer associated with modernism and the Harlem Renaissance.

Margery Latimer became pregnant and the couple settled in Chicago, where they took an apartment.

Shortly after holding her daughter, Margery Latimer hemorrhaged and lapsed into a coma.