Carson McCullers, novelist, short story writer, and playwright, was born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia, the daughter of Lamar Smith, a jewelry storeowner, and Vera Marguerite Waters. Best known for her novels The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Café, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Member of the Wedding, McCullers also won awards for her adaptation of The Member of the Wedding for the Broadway stage. After completing high school, Carson studied for two years in New York before marrying James Reeves McCullers and moving to New York permanently upon the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, in 1940 when McCullers was only 23. Heralded as a wunderkind by critics, McCullers' most significant was published between 1943 and 1950. Plagued by a series of strokes attributed to a mis-diagnosed and untreated case of childhood rheumatic fever, McCullers died at age fifty in 1967. With a collection of work including five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, over two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children's verses, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography, McCullers is considered among the most significant American writers of the twentieth-century.

Author biography courtesy of The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians at Columbus State University, Columbus, GA.

All Books

21- 40 of 59 results
Title: Reflets Dans Un Oeil D or, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, Author: Carson McCullers
eBook $11.49 $14.99 Current price is $11.49, Original price is $14.99.
Title: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings, Author: Carson McCullers
eBook $11.49 $13.99 Current price is $11.49, Original price is $13.99.
Title: Clock Without Hands, Author: Carson McCullers
eBook $11.49 $14.99 Current price is $11.49, Original price is $14.99.
Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: The Member of the Wedding, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: La ballata del caffè triste, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: And Other Stories, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: El aliento del cielo: Prólogo y comentarios de Rodrigo Fresán, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: Reflejos en un ojo dorado: Prólogo de Cristina Morales. Epílogo de Tennessee Williams, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: The Member of the Wedding, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: Reflections in a Golden Eye, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: Iluminación y fulgor nocturno: Prólogo de Elena Poniatowska, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Author: Rebecca Gilman
Title: Inima-i un vanator singuratic, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: Invito a nozze, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: Riflessi in un occhio d'oro, Author: Carson McCullers
Title:
Title: Le Coeur hypothéqué, Author: Carson McCullers

Pagination Links