{"product_id":"carson-mccullers-a-life-hardcover","title":"Carson McCullers: A Life - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary V. Dearborn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America's greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eV. S. Pritchett called her \"a genius.\" Gore Vidal described her as a \"beloved novelist of singular brilliance . . . Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure . . .\" And Tennessee Williams said, \"The only \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c\/i\u003e writer the South ever turned out, was Carson.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. Her dream was to become a concert pianist, though she'd been writing since she was sixteen and the influence of music was evident throughout her work. As a child, she said she'd been \"born a man.\" At twenty, she married Reeves McCullers, a fellow southerner, ex-soldier, and aspiring writer (\"He was the best-looking man I had ever seen\"). They had a fraught, tumultuous marriage lasting twelve years and ending with his suicide in 1953. Reeves was devoted to her and to her writing, and he envied her talent; she yearned for attention, mostly from women who admired her but rebuffed her sexually. Her first novel--\u003ci\u003eThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e--was published in 1940, when she was twenty-three, and overnight, Carson McCullers became the most widely talked about writer of the time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile McCullers's literary stature continues to endure, her private life has remained enigmatic and largely unexamined. Now, with unprecedented access to the cache of materials that has surfaced in the past decade, Mary Dearborn gives us the first full picture of this brilliant, complex artist who was decades ahead of her time, a writer who understood--and captured--the heart and longing of the outcast.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARY V. DEARBORN holds a doctorate in English and comparative literature from Columbia University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She is the author of seven books--among them, \u003ci\u003eMistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eErnest Hemingway.\u003c\/i\u003e Dearborn has been a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in Buckland, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.57 x 9.42 x 6.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748794859808,"sku":"9780525521013","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/35495bd184a92d844d6f439d75fdcf8c.webp?v=1779916377","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/carson-mccullers-a-life-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}