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Nov 25, 2001 · Unhappy Endings. By Hilton Als. November 25, 2001. Carson McCullers in 1947. Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum. We’re in the closing moments of Carson McCullers’s 1946 novel "The ...
Feb 4, 2020 · In Carson McCullers’s 1946 novel “The Member of the Wedding,” 12-year-old Frankie Addams, a motherless girl growing up in small-town Georgia, is jolted by news of her older brother’s ...
Mar 1, 2024 · McCullers was primarily a lesbian, despite her two tumultuous marriages to the attractive, talented, troubled Reeves McCullers. As Jenn Shapland pointed out in a 2020 Paris Review piece, Carson ...
May 31, 2020 · Carson McCullers ’s (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) short stories (ruling out for the moment the novella The Ballad of the Sad Café, 1943, serial; 1951, book) often explore the intense emotional content of seemingly undramatic situations. Plot is minimal, although there is often at least one unusual or grotesque element.
These novels, as well as McCullers' Reflections in a Golden Eye (1942). a psychological horror story set on a Southern military base, were all eventually adapted as movies. The Broadway production of The Member of the Wedding (for which McCullers wrote the script) had an award-winning run in 1950-51. Best known for her novels and their dramatic ...
Feb 27, 2024 · Carson McCullers’s life was full of pain but also creative inspiration. Mary V. Dearborn’s biography reveals the physical and psychic torment experienced by the author of ‘The Heart Is a ...
Jul 23, 2020 · A Connoisseur of Yearning. Carson McCullers, who once loomed large in the mid-twentieth-century literature of the South, now seems the smallest bird on the branch that holds William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, Richard Wright, and McCullers’s close friend Tennessee Williams. Her precocious talent survived her ...
