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5 new York, europe, Michigan, Virginia, and washington, dC, 1952–1961 At the congress for cultural freedom in Paris in 1952, Porter spoke at the opening session on behalf of the U.s. delegation. she spent her remaining time in france renewing old acquaintances, making new friends (such as elizabeth Hardwick), and escaping to brittany to work on the foreword to her first collection of essays, The Days Before, which was published soon after her return to the United states. in demand more than ever as a speaker and college teacher, she continued to make appearances at such schools as the University of Wichita, and she assumed writer-in-residence positions at the University of michigan, where she met david Locher and Jeanne rockwell; the University of virginia; and Washington and Lee, where she met rita Johns. the fulbright fellowship she accepted after her year at michigan was cut short because of illness at the beginning of 1955, the year in which she left Harcourt, brace, after the death of donald brace, and joined forces with Atlantic–Little, brown and her new editor, seymour Lawrence, who guided Ship of Fools to completion. she became friends with flannery O’connor and formed a lasting friendship with the young writer barbara thompson. ...

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