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Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her work is described as Southern Gothic, and reflects McCullers Southern roots and her birthplace of Columbus, Georgia. Critics describe her characters as eccentric, but with universal scope. McCullers’ first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town in the Southern United States.
Her stories have been adapted to stage and film and a stage adaptation of her novel The Member of the Wedding (1946), made a successful Broadway run in 1950–51. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was adapted to film in 1968.
For more information about Carson McCullers follow these links:
http://www.mccullerscenter.org
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/carson-mccullers-1917-1967/
