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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 · Books. 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....
- 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
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 was, after more than two years of writing, finally seeing the light of day.
- Mary V. Dearborn
Jul 30, 2002 · Carson McCullers. With a collection of work including five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, more than two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children’s verse, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography, Carson McCullers is considered to be among the most significant American writers of the twentieth century.
Sep 29, 2017 · Carson McCullers died fifty years ago, at only fifty herself, and left behind a small but potent body of work—all the more impressive for the conditions under which she wrote it.
