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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. February...
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.
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. It is competent and professional, as if built ...
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.
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).
Mar 3, 2017 · Feb. 19 was the centenary of the birth of Carson McCullers, one of the most distinctive and ill-fated writers in American history. McCullers died when she was 50, in 1967. She suffered a series...
