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Carson McCullers was an American writer from the early-to-mid 20th century known for exploring themes of loneliness and human connection in the American South. Her novels and stories remain significant contributions to American literature, earning her recognition as an important voice in Southern Gothic fiction.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 19 February 1917
- Died
- 29 September 1967
- Works
- 211
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- Nha luṃʺ sāʺ 'a thīʺ kyanʻ mu chuiʺ
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Member of the Wedding (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Famous American Plays of the 1940s
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Writing · Columbus, Georgia, USA
Carson McCullers, born Lula Carson Smith, was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the U.S. South.
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- Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger - Die Schriftstellerin Carson McCullers — Elle-même
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1917
- Active to
- 1967
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Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American writer. She wrote novels, short stories, and two plays, as well as essays and some poetry. Her first novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts of the South. Her other novels have similar themes and are all set in the South. She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia in 1917. Her mother was the granddaughter of a plantation owner and Confederate war hero. <a href="
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Quotes
- “It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the rollercoaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or the country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
- “This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person who hung around in the doorways, and she was afraid.”
- “In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise.”
- “"I'm one who knows. I'm a stranger in a strange land."”
- “"Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean."”
- “Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Lula Carson Smith , ( 1917-02-19 ) February 19, 1917, Columbus, Georgia , U.S.
- Died
- September 29, 1967 (1967-09-29) (aged 50), Nyack, New York , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Education
- Columbia University
- Genre
- Southern Gothic
- Notable works
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter The Ballad of the Sad Café The Member of the Wedding
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- Official website
- carson-mccullers.com
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Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes. Most are set in the Deep South.
McCullers's work is often described as Southern Gothic and indicative of her Southern roots. Critics also describe her writing and eccentric characters as universal in scope. Her stories have been adapted to stage and film. A stage adaptation of her novel The Member of the Wedding (1946), which captures a young girl's feelings at her brother's wedding, made a successful Broadway run in 1950–51.