On November 9, 1948, a reception was held at the Gotham Book Mart in New York City in honor of Edith and Osbert Sitwell. The distinguished literary guests included W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Tennessee Williams. A photograph of the evening shows Auden, perched on a ladder, towering above the scene; Moore sits directly below him, with Bishop to her left. To their right is a less familiar figure, no less at ease than the rest, but perhaps most striking for being ...
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