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Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States.
Feb 26, 2024 · The Arrested Development of Carson McCullers. She was one of the great writers of American girlhood—possibly because she spent her life being tended to like a child. By Maggie Doherty....
Carson McCullers (born February 19, 1917, Columbus, Georgia, U.S.—died September 29, 1967, Nyack, New York) was an American writer of novels and stories that depict the inner lives of lonely people.
Fiction of American writer Carson Smith McCullers explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts of the South; her novels include The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) and The Member of the Wedding (1946).
Carson McCullers was a literary fiction author from Columbus who made her name writing some very popular collections of short stories and novels. She was born in 1917 to jewelry store owner Lamar Smith and his wife Vera Marguerite Waters.
Feb 28, 2024 · Carson McCullers, twenty-three years old, was alone in a cheap boardinghouse on New York’s West Side. Her husband of almost three years was elsewhere, on a sailboat with a friend; a new note seemed to be sounding in her marriage since her book […]
Feb 19, 2024 · Mary V. Dearborn’s new book, “Carson McCullers: A Life,” is the first major biography of this essential American writer in more than 20 years.
