McCullers, Carson (Vol. 1) - McCullers, Carson 1917–1967
McCullers, Carson 1917–1967
Southern American novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Mrs. McCullers is the author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Member of the Wedding. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.; obituary, Vols. 25-28.)
Since the publication of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter in 1940, when its author was only twenty-three years old, Carson McCullers has been recognized as one of the most likely talents in the South, one who brought strange and artful gifts of sensibility to the contemporary novel. The strangeness, however, reminded some readers of Poe's artifices, and it persuaded them to discredit her fiction as simply gothic. The judgment is aberrant and at best specious. It is true that Mrs. McCullers lacks the scope, strength, and fury of Faulkner, lacks his dark apprehension of the Southern past and his profound insight into the American wilderness,...
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