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3 unusual facts about Carson McCullers


Carson McCullers

In a discussion with the Irish critic and writer Terence de Vere White she said: "Writing, for me, is a search for God".

The novella The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) depicts loneliness and the pain of unrequited love; at the time of its writing, McCullers was a resident at Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga, New York.

Sad Café

The Ballad of the Sad Café, a 1951 collection of short stories by Carson McCullers, which includes a novella, also called The Ballad of the Sad Cafe


An Impudent Girl

It is a free adaptation of the novel Frankie Addams (French title of Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding).

Laurel Holloman

She moved to New York City in early 1994 and appeared in stage productions such as Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter at the Theatre for the New City.

O Street

O Street makes you think of great writers in strange combinations: Dreiser and Welty; Wright and McCullers; Joan Didion and Stephen Crane.

Virginia Spencer Carr

Virginia Spencer Carr (July 21, 1929 – April 10, 2012) was an award-winning biographer of Carson McCullers, John Dos Passos and Paul Bowles.


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