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.

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Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Author: Carson McCullers
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Title: Clock Without Hands, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings, Author: Carson McCullers
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Title: Reflections in a Golden Eye, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: The Member of the Wedding: A Play, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings (LOA #287): Complete stories / The Member of the Wedding: A Play / The Sojourner / The Square Root of Wonderful / essays, poems & autobiography, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: Frankie Addams, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: La ballade du café triste et autres nouvelles, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: The Member of the Wedding, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: Le coeur est un chasseur solitaire et essais, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: L'horloge sans aiguilles, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: Reflets Dans Un Oeil D or, Author: Carson McCullers