The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
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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 Caf 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 McCullerss 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 writers 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 p
