Looking back over her life from a precocious childhood in Georgia to her painful decline from a series of crippling strokes, McCullers offers poignant and unabashed remembrances of her early writing success, her family attachments, a troubled marriage to a failed writer, and friendships with literary and film luminaries (Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Wright, Isak Dinesen, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe), and the intense relationships of the important women in her life.
Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. We the People: https://t.co/HSQd0cfKJa; Of Thee I Sing: https://t.co/bSkmCeE703. #ScholarSunday guru. he/him
From her debut novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940), published when she was just 23, to her posthumously published autobiography Illumination and Night Glare (1999), Carson McCullers was a unique talent & a very thoughtful commentator on her native South among other topics.
Founded in 1990, the Carson McCullers Society is dedicated to the study of the great American author. https://t.co/0hBhY0uo44
'I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, "How could you dare write that story, it's the most terrifying work I have ever read."' - Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare https://t.co/fGjeMdyfrg