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: Carson McCullers: Complete Novels (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The Member of the Wedding, Clock Without Hands) (Library of America), Author: Carson McCullers
Title: Clock Without Hands, Author: Carson McCullers
Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Author: Carson McCullers
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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
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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
Narrated by  Cherry Jones
Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Author: Carson McCullers