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The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers

by Virginia Spencer Carr

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The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented, vulnerable but exploitative, McCullers led a life that had all the elements--and more--of a tragic novel.

From McCullers's birth in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, The Lonely Hunter thoroughly covers every significant event in, and aspect of, the writer's life: her rise as a young literary sensation; her emotional, artistic, and sexual eccentricities and entanglements; her debilitating illnesses; her travels in America and Europe; and the provenance of her works from their earliest drafts through their book, stage, and film versions.

To research her subject, Virginia Spencer Carr visited all of the important places in McCullers's life, read virtually everything written by or about her, and interviewed hundreds of McCullers's relatives, friends, and enemies. The result is an enduring, distinguished portrait of a brilliant, but deeply troubled, writer.

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Virginia Spencer Carr holds the John B. and Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Distinguished Chair in English at Georgia State University. Her books include Understanding Carson McCullers, Dos Passos: A Life, and a biography of Paul Bowles.

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ISBN:
9780820325224
Author:
Carr, Virginia Spencer
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Foreword by:
Williams, Tennessee
Foreword:
Williams, Tennessee
Author:
Williams, Tennessee
Location:
Athens
Subject:
General
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Novelists, American
Subject:
Novelists, American -- 20th century.
Subject:
McCullers, Carson
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Women
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Biography-Literary
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Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series Volume:
576
Publication Date:
20030631
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
680
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in 1.93 lb

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