Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, Paperback/Virginia Spencer Carr

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The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson Mc Cullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Caf , Carson Mc Cullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented, vulnerable but exploitative, Mc Cullers led a life that had all the elements--and more--of a tragic novel. From Mc Cullers'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 Mc Cullers's life, read virtually everything written by or about her, and interviewed hundreds of Mc Cullers's relatives, friends, and enemies. The result is an enduring, distinguished portrait of a brilliant, but deeply troubled, writer. About the Author: VIRGINIA SPENCER CARR held the John B. and Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Distinguished Chair in English at Georgia State University. Her books include Understanding Carson Mc Cullers, Dos Passos: A Life, and a biography of Paul Bowles.