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of Lady Chatterley���s Lover, had a house up here. We may have visited him for a week. Kurt Vonnegut was living up here. I���m not sure of these dates. Kurt Vonnegut was definitely living here, but whether it was that year, 1947, or whether it was later, because I was back here in ���51, I can���t say. But after the summer of ���46, I worked on the book all year and finished it in the fall of ���47. Spent the winter and spring in Paris, came back to New York in the summer of ���48 ��� I don���t know if we were in Provincetown that summer. Then went to Hollywood for a lot of ���49. I think by ���50 we were back here. Bea and I broke up in ���51. I started living with Adele Morales and we came here and rented a place. One summer we rented the Hawthorne house that���s up on Miller Hill Road. At one time it was the only house on the hill. Now there are about 15 houses or so it seems. That was a wonderful house. It had a little studio as well and that was where I worked on Barbary Shore quite a bit. That book was started in Paris, continued in Vermont, where I spent a winter before I went out to Hollywood. The first draft was finished in Hollywood. Then I worked on it up in P���town in that house, then bought a house in Vermont, then finished it in late ���50. The book came out in May of ���51. CB: If we were to jump from the past to the very present ��� you���ve seen Provincetown change over 50 years. In one sense you���ve said it hasn���t changed that much. Its attitude remains open and tolerant. NM: Architecturally it hasn���t changed that much. In terms of what the town is like, it���s changed immensely. The people here now are altogether different from the people then. CB: The town is certainly less bohemian. Now, it is possible to say with plausible irony, most of the gays are straighter than the straights. HYLAND 9