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McCullers, Carson (sh)




orig. Lula Carson Smith

born Feb. 19, 1917, Columbus, Ga., U.S.
died Sept. 29, 1967, Nyack, N.Y.

U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

She studied at Columbia and New York universities and eventually settled in New York's Greenwich Village. A series of strokes she suffered as a child left her partly paralyzed. She typically set her stories in small Southern communities and depicted the inner lives of lonely people. Her novels include The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), perhaps her finest work; Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941); The Member of the Wedding (1946), which she adapted into a play (1950); and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1951), dramatized by Edward Albee in 1963. Each of these was adapted for film.