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	Carson McCullers
		Although McCullers depicted homosexual characters and she has female lover, the theme of homosexuality is placed in a wider context of alienation and dislocation.
		Lula Carson Smith (Carson McCullers) was born in Columbus, Georgia, as the daughter of a well-to-do watchmaker and jeweller of French Hugenot extraction.
		Carson McCullers suffered throughout her life from several illnesses - she had contracted rheumatic fever at the age of fifteen and a series of strokes left her a virtual invalid in her early 30's.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /carsonmc.htm (1198 words)

	Carson McCullers Collection, Biographical Sketch
		Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia, as Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, the first born of Lamar and Marguerite Waters Smith.
		Carson graduated from Columbus High School in 1933, and after her piano teacher moved away in the spring of 1934, Carson moved to New York City to study at the Juilliard School of Music.
		Carson suffered the first of several strokes in 1941, believed to be the result of a misdiagnosed case of rheumatic fever which had damaged her heart when she was fifteen.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/mccullers.bio.html (699 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Carson McCullers (1917-1967) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lula Carson, as she was called until age fourteen, attended public schools and graduated from Columbus High School at sixteen.
		In 1934, at age seventeen, McCullers sailed from Savannah to New York City, ostensibly to study piano at the Juilliard School of Music but actually to pursue her secret ambition to write.
		In September 1937 she married James Reeves McCullers Jr., a native of Wetumpka, Alabama, whom she met when Reeves was in the army stationed at Fort Benning, near her hometown.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-557 (1707 words)

	Carson
		Carson McCullers was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917.
		McCullers' life was blighted by a series of cerebral strokes caused by misdiagnosed and untreated childhood case of rheumatic fever.
		McCullers suffered a final stroke in August, 1967 and died at age 50 on September 29, 1967.
	www.mccullerscenter.org /carson.htm (149 words)

	Carson McCullers; ISBN-10: 0395878209 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Carson McCullers is too free with her passions and her words, too independent, and too adept at surviving come what may so that she can continue to write.
		According to Tournier, Carson’s life after the death of her husband -- that is, for fourteen years -- was nothing more than intense despair over his absence, a long lament, nights spent imagining that Reeves’s ghost had returned to roam in the garden of the author’s Nyack home.
		Adolescence seems to have remained intact in Carson, indestructible despite all the experiences of life -- the loves, the losses, and the afflictions of a body broken by illness -- preserving in her a young girl’s heart, with its angry outbursts and its torments.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /catalog/titledetail.cfm?textType=excerpt&titleNumber=681267 (1327 words)

	A. Hershey on Carson McCullers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Carson McCullers is an enigma to many, even to most of those who knew her, including, to some extent, the author herself.
		According to the legends that surround her early period in the city, she first established her residence, quite unwittingly, in a house of prostitution, and she found the other tenants of the house friendly and sympathetic and had not the ghost of an idea of what illicit enterprise was going on there.
		Carson found herself to be cleverly adept at playing the piano at a young age.
	cabaret_voltaire.tripod.com /ZQ1B_mccullers.html (3321 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Carson McCullers et al - Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography ...
		McCuller's is one of the few people who seems to understand and be able to express the bizarre combination of loneliness and hopefulness that I live with.
		Carson wished to write this autobiography to explore the effects of success at a young age.
		For Carson, the title referred to her creative insights (her illuminations) and the difficulties she faced in life (the night glare.) But for me the illumination was the light shown on her optimistic spirit and inability to be kept down.
	www.epinions.com /content_102715788932 (1046 words)

	Carson McCullers
		A brilliant, sensitive artist who had a painful small-town childhood and early international success, she was crippled by a mysterious disease in early adulthood and suffered from a fraught mother-daughter relationship, ambiguous sexuality, and a doomed marriage to an alcoholic and ultimately suicidal husband, whom she married twice.
		The Carson McCullers Society was organized at the 1997 Convention of the American Literature Association in Baltimore.
		Carson McCullers is an enigma to many, even to most of those who knew her, including, to some extent, the author herself.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/m/mccullers_carson.htm (806 words)

	Carson McCullers Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
		McCuller's best known novels are THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER 1940), written with realistic and symbolic variations on the theme of human loneliness and REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE (1942), a psychological horror story set in a military base.
		Carson lived nearby, and one day when Buzz and I were out for a walk she hailed us from her doorway.
		McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia, as the daughter of a well-to-do watchmaker and jeweller of French Hugenot extraction.
	www.litweb.net /biography/283/Carson_McCullers.html (780 words)

	Carson McCullers
		Lula Carson McCullers was born on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia.
		McCullers lost all interest in the piano when her mentor and piano teacher moved to another state.
		He wrote Carson and begged her forgiveness for his "foolish ways." The two exchanged letters and were remarried in 1945.
	www.angelfire.com /ar/territspage/carsonmccullers.html (550 words)

	VQR » Carson Mccullers: the Aesthetic of Pain
		McCullers has never let us participate in the deception; we have witnessed it at all points for the ruse that it is, and when the arrangements collapse we perceive only the inevitable outcome of what we have seen developing all along.
		McCullers for viewing and identifying the details of human life, and the accuracy with which she was able to create so many sharply delineated people, then, was not exactly a joy in the richness and variety of experience, so much as a hunger for possession.
		Carson McCullers must show her misfits, whether spiritual or physical, in an extended context; there is plenty of time for everything.
	www.vqronline.org /articles/1977/spring/rubin-carson-mccullers (5257 words)

	Honorees - Carson McCullers
		Carson McCullers is often mentioned in one breath with the preeminent figures of Southern literature, such as her contemporaries, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty.
		Born Lula Carson Smith, she moved to New York at seventeen to study piano but ended up studying creative writing at Columbia and NYU instead.
		Carson McCullers' adult life was a mixture of emotional unhappiness and bad health, but with luminous talent she drew upon her empathy and experience to compose resonant, ballad-like stories about the inner lives of marginal, often physically or psychologically scarred characters who were tormented by loneliness.
	www.libs.uga.edu /gawriters/mccullers.html (577 words)

	SHOW BUSINESS WEEKLY: REVIEWS: Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Suicide, unfulfilled lesbian desire, chronic illness and rampant alcoholism - it is debatable as to whether the elements of Carson McCullers life fueled the fire of her talent or quenched it.
		McCullers (Jenny Bacon) is so obsessed with the characters in her first novel that she telephones her mother on her wedding night to announce a breakthrough.
		Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate) is a tough, unsentimental portrait of an artist that deftly avoids cliché.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/159/carson-mccullers.html (562 words)

	Carson McCullers
		When Carson McCullers was twenty-three years old, she wrote The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, a novel indicative of far more insight into the human condition than a green young lady from a small town in Georgia should have had.
		Carson almost immediately fell in love with a European writer and femme fatale she met in one of the many artistic circles she would become a member of.
		Many people who came into contact with Carson McCullers thought her to be a dangerous person to become involved with, citing her childlike need for constant attention and a propensity for developing all-consuming attachments to those she became fond of.
	www.virginiamusicflash.com /carson.htm (1521 words)

	Carson McCullers - Penguin Group (New Zealand) Authors - Penguin Group (New Zealand)
		Carson McCullers was born at Columbus, Georgia, in 1917.
		She was always a delicate person and as a young adult she began to suffer from strokes, and by the age of thirty-one she was paralysed down her left side.
		Graham Greene wrote of her: 'Miss McCullers and perhaps Mr Faulkner are the only writers since the death of D. Lawrence with an original poetic sensibility.
	www.penguin.co.nz /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000021816,00.html (254 words)

	Carson McCullers
		McCuller's best known novels are THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER 1940), written at the age of twenty-two, and REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE (1942), a psychological horror story set in a military base.
		Lula Carson Smith (Carson McCullers) was born in Columbus, Georgia, as the daughter of a well-to-do watchmaker and jeweller of French Hugenot extraction.
		Carson McCullers suffered throughout her life from several illnesses - she had contracted rheumatic fever at the age of fifteen and a series of strokes left her a virtual invalid in her early 30's.
	www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Culture/Literature/carson_mccullers.htm (684 words)

	Carson McCullers - Encyclopedia.com
		The central theme of her novels is the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition.
		As a result of misdiagnosed rheumatic fever in her adolescence, McCullers suffered a series of strokes during her twenties that left her partially paralyzed; during her last years she was confined to a wheelchair.
		Reclaiming McCullers: with her new play on author Carson McCullers, Sarah Schulman brings her empathetic outsider's eye to New York's mainstream theater scene.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-McCuller.html (1131 words)

	Carson McCullers Biography and Summary
		With Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers is an explorer of the southern grotesque, for the ambience of her fiction is always southern, whatever its geographic locale, and her characters are the solitary, the freak...
		With Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers is an explorer of the Southern grotesque, for the ambiance of her fiction is always Southern, whatever its geographic locale, and her characters are the solitary, the freak...
		Carson McCullers is best known as a novelist, for it is her early novels, written when she was in her twenties, that assure her position among the preeminent writers of her generation.
	www.bookrags.com /Carson_McCullers (518 words)

	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
		Carson McCullers (1917–1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands.
		In 1938 Carson McCullers, a twenty-one-year-old writing student living in New York, submitted an outline and six chapters of a novel, "The Mute," to Houghton Mifflin.
		Today, as always, Carson McCullers remains an integral part of Houghton's longstanding commitment to — and legacy of — discovering new writers and supporting and nurturing them throughout their careers.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /authors/mccullers (857 words)

	Powell's Books - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
		With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation.
		Richard Wright praised Carson McCullers for her ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and fl humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." She writes "with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming," said the New York Times.
		McCullers became an overnight literary sensation, but her novel has endured, just as timely and powerful today as when it was first published.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0618526412 (531 words)

	carson mccullers
		Carson McCullers is considered one of the most enduring Southern novelist, short story writer, dramatist, and poet during the mid 1900’s.
		Carson McCullers was born February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia and died September 29, 1967 in Nyack, New York and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery also in New York.
		McCullers was raised in the south and was a tomboy who always loved the woods and nature and was said to always be seen by her self, just looking and observing.
	www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=63836 (264 words)

	CSU Archives - Carson McCullers Research
		The Archives works closely with the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians to acquire and preserve manuscript, print, photographic, and audio materials which document the life and work of the author.
		This novel established McCullers as an author, and she continued to write, completing three other novels and a collection of short stories: Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), The Member of the Wedding (1946), The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951), and Clock Without Hands (1961).
		McCullers, who suffered a series of three strokes which eventually left her partially paralyzed, died in Nyack, New York on September 29, 1967.
	archives.colstate.edu /mccullers/index.php (278 words)

	Today in History: February 19
		Novelist Carson McCullers, noted for her exploration of the dilemmas of modern American life in the context of the twentieth-century South, was born on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia.
		McCullers' writing was shaped by her childhood in Columbus, Georgia.
		McCullers aficionados may be interested in the Carson McCullers Society which was organized by a group of scholars at the 1997 Convention of the American Literature Association.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/feb19.html (483 words)

	Carson McCullers's Sure Aim At the Heart of Loneliness (washingtonpost.com)
		McCullers around the world, not vast in number, form a club of devotees whose membership is constantly renewed." In the past year or so I have had ample evidence of this, as innumerable readers have written to urge that I include a book by McCullers in this series.
		Carson McCullers produced five novels before she died at age 50 after a stroke.
		McCullers throughout her brief life -- she died in 1967 after a stroke -- was a troubled and troublesome woman.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A42112-2004Jun14.html (1524 words)

	Carson McCullers
		The typewriter aided in catapulting the young woman from Columbus, Ga., to literary celebrity as Carson McCullers, author of ''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' (1940) and ''The Member of the Wedding'' (1946).
		A brilliant writer whose ''genius for prose'' Gore Vidal once described as ''one of the few satisfying achievements of our second-rate culture,'' McCullers was also a cripple before she turned 40, struggling to continue writing in spite of her ailments and publishing four novels before her death in 1967 at the age of 50.
		In ''Carson McCullers: A Life,'' Josyane Savigneau refuses to allow the artist to be overshadowed by the invalid.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/01/03/11/bib/010311.rv132728.html (289 words)

	Carson McCullers - MSN Encarta
		Carson McCullers (1917-1967), American writer, born in Columbus, Georgia.
		Born Carson Smith, she attended classes at the Juilliard School and at Columbia and New York universities in the late 1930s.
		For her work McCullers drew upon her childhood in the southern United States and on her feeling for lonely, misfit, and outcast individuals.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572902/Carson_McCullers.html (195 words)

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