Carson McCullers (1917–1967)
Author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
About the Author
Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917. She died at age fifty in Nyack, New York, on September 29, 1967. A promising pianist, she had hoped to enroll at the Juilliard School of Music when she was seventeen, but when she arrived in New York, she attended writing classes show more at Columbia University instead. In December 1936 her first story, "Wunderkind," was published in "Story" magazine. That winter she began work on "The Mute," which would become her enduring masterpiece, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." (Publisher Provided) Carson McCullers was born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917 in Columbus, Georgia. At the age of seventeen, desiring to become a famous concert pianist, she went to New York City to attend the Julliard School of Music. Her family sacrificed and raised money for her tuition to go to Julliard, but she lost all of her money when she left her pocketbook on the subway. Unable to tell her family what had happened, she took writing classes at Columbia University and New York University from 1935-1936. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was published in 1940. Her other novels included Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Ballad of the Sad Café, The Member of the Wedding, and Clock Without Hands. With the help of Tennessee Williams, The Member of the Wedding was adapted into a play, which won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1950. She died from a stroke and subsequent brain hemorrhage on September 29, 1967at the age of 50. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Carson McCullers
Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1987) 622 copies
Complete Novels: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member… (2001) 562 copies
Three Novels: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Others Stories, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and The Member of The… (1991) 86 copies
Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Café / The Member of the Wedding (1974) 47 copies
The Ballad of The Sad Café / The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Member of the Wedding /… (1951) — Author — 9 copies
Alle verhalen Carson McCullers ; vertaald door en met een nawoord van Molly van Gelder (2021) 7 copies
The Sojourner 3 copies
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Wunderkind; The Jockey; Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland; The Sojourner; A Domestic… (2000) 2 copies
Coração Solitário Caçador 2 copies
McCullers, Carson Archive 2 copies
The ballad fo the sad Cafe 1 copy
Who Has Seen the Wind? 1 copy
A Haunted Boy 1 copy
A Domestic Dilemma 1 copy
The Orphanage 1 copy
Poldi 1 copy
Correspondence 1 copy
Untitled Piece 1 copy
The Aliens 1 copy
Instant of the Hour After 1 copy
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunte 1 copy
Balada tristei cafenele 1 copy
Komu ukazał się wiatr? 1 copy
Court in the West Eighties 1 copy
Art and Mr. Mahoney 1 copy
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Martin Beck Theatre (October 30, 1963-February 15, 1964) Playbill 1 copy
Books I remember 1 copy
Breath from the sky 1 copy
Like that 1 copy
The pestle 1 copy
To bear the truth alone 1 copy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / The Member of the Wedding / Reflections in a Golden Eye (2010) — Author — 1 copy
Die Ballade vom traurigen Café. Dramatisiert von Edward Albee (Insel-Bücherei Nr. 1004) [Pappe] (1975) 1 copy
Stone is not stone : a poem 1 copy
Associated Works
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contributor — 446 copies
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contributor — 183 copies
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Contributor — 141 copies
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contributor — 47 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contributor — 13 copies
Georgia Stories: Major Georgia Short Fiction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1992) — Contributor — 11 copies
Het neusje van de zalm een feestelijke bloemlezing uit Querido's 'vlaggetjesreeks' (1986) — Contributor — 5 copies
Critics' Choice: New York Drama Critics' Circle Prize Plays, 1935-1955 (1945) — Contributor — 3 copies
20th Century American Short Stories, Volume 2 — Contributor — 3 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Contributor — 3 copies
The Human Commitment - An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction — Contributor — 1 copy
The Haunted Boy, Sphinx, Lead Her Like a Pigeon, Red Wind, The Eighty-Yard Run (Selections from Reader's Digst… (1980) 1 copy
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 3 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Smith, Lula Carson (born)
- Birthdate
- 1917-02-19
- Date of death
- 1967-09-29
- Burial location
- Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, Rockland County, New York, USA
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Columbus, Georgia, USA
- Place of death
- Nyack, New York, USA
- Cause of death
- brain hemorrhage
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Columbia University
Washington Square College - Occupations
- novelist
short-story writer
playwright - Relationships
- McCullers, Reeves (husband)
Smith, Margarita G. (sister) - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1952)
February House
Yaddo
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference - Awards and honors
- Georgia Women of Achievement (1994)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1943)
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame - Short biography
- Carson McCullers reinvented herself after leaving home at age 17 to study at the Juilliard School of Music in Manhattan. Something happened to make her lose the money and she never attended the school. Instead, she worked and took night classes at university. Her published writing began to appear in 1936. She suffered throughout her life from serious illness, including rheumatic fever and several strokes. By the age of 31, her left side was completely paralyzed. Her work, usually set in the South of her birth, often focused on people seen as misfits and outcasts.
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