Elizabeth Bishop arrived in Key West in 1937 and was acquainted with Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway. In later years she also communicated by letter with Flannery O’Connor. In the film Reaching For The Moon [2013], Bishop’s character glows over Aldous Huxley’s approval of her work [1:02:21]. Huxley was connected with Pauline through Pauline’s sister, Virginia, who lived with Aldous and second wife, Laura, in Hollywood. Pauline also maintained an apartment in San Francisco.
Bishop’s Key West house was donated to the Key West Literary Seminar in 2019, and is being renovated to serve as headquarters: Elizabeth Bishop House.
Monday, July 22, 1895 [Pauline], Parkersburg (Cedar Falls) IA, 00:00:
Transiting Moon 14° 29′ conjunct Lunar North Node 13° 36′ Pisces
Transiting Mnemosyne 13° 20′ Virgo conjunct Venus 14° 11′ Virgo
Venus conjunct Lunar South Node
Anaretic New Moon cusp Leo