Moore's Predelictions, selected essays and reviews, is published; elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Moore is Elected to national Institute of Arts and Letters; mother dies. During the period she begins wearing the tricorner hat and cape as her personal trademark (her mother had fashioned the first cape in 1905, and she had worn a cape in college)
Moore's Observations gets published by Dial Press and awards her $2000 in recognition of "Unusual Literary Value"