S Is for Southern by Garden & Gun

Author:Garden & Gun
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2017-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

MCCULLERS, CARSON

(1917–1967)

IF EUDORA WELTY, HARPER LEE, AND Flannery O’Connor make up the varsity squad of twentieth-century Southern female writers, then Carson McCullers is the one who didn’t even try out for the team—she was too busy smoking cigarettes behind the gymnasium. Known for an emotional artistic intensity, McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia, but moved almost constantly throughout her life, with multiple stops in France, Italy, North Carolina, and New York, among other places. The tumultuous relationship she shared with her husband, Reeves, included one divorce, one remarriage (to each other), numerous separations, and suicide attempts for both, including one in which Reeves tried to convince McCullers to kill herself with him. Before she was even thirty, McCullers suffered a series of strokes, only the start of a lifetime of poor health and physical pain. Throughout it all, though, she managed to produce some of the century’s most sensitive and celebrated fiction while befriending and working with leading artists and thinkers of the time, including Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee, who adapted her work for the stage. McCullers’s 1940 novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, published when she was twenty-three, is often listed as among the twentieth century’s finest, though The Member of the Wedding, published six years later, may be her defining masterpiece.

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