Truitt married James McConnell Truitt in 1947 and moved from Boston to Washington, D.C., where he worked in the State Department. She continued to write, and in the 1950s she translated from French to English a book written by professor Germaine Brée of Bryn Mawr College: Du temps perdu au temps retrouvé, published by Rutgers University Press in 1956 as Marcel Proust and Deliverance from Time. In 1948 James Truitt left the State Department and began a career in journalism; subsequently the Truitts moved around the United States and lived in Japan from 1964–1967 when James was Tokyo bureau chief for Newsweek.