 Her writing career seemed to take off in 1935 when she sold her first short story to "The Saturday Evening Post" for the sum of $400.But Johnson did not sell another story for 11 years until, in 1941, four stories narrated by a recurring character, "Beulah Bunny," sold to "The Saturday Evening Post" for $2,100.Her writing was temporarily sidetracked by World War II, when she went to work for the Air Warden Service.