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Carson McCullers (1917–1967)

Autor(a) de The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

85+ Works 20,216 Membros 457 Críticas 124 Favorited

About the Author

Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917. She died at age fifty in Nyack, New York, on September 29, 1967. A promising pianist, she had hoped to enroll at the Juilliard School of Music when she was seventeen, but when she arrived in New York, she attended writing classes mostrar mais at Columbia University instead. In December 1936 her first story, "Wunderkind," was published in "Story" magazine. That winter she began work on "The Mute," which would become her enduring masterpiece, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." (Publisher Provided) Carson McCullers was born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917 in Columbus, Georgia. At the age of seventeen, desiring to become a famous concert pianist, she went to New York City to attend the Julliard School of Music. Her family sacrificed and raised money for her tuition to go to Julliard, but she lost all of her money when she left her pocketbook on the subway. Unable to tell her family what had happened, she took writing classes at Columbia University and New York University from 1935-1936. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was published in 1940. Her other novels included Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Ballad of the Sad Café, The Member of the Wedding, and Clock Without Hands. With the help of Tennessee Williams, The Member of the Wedding was adapted into a play, which won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1950. She died from a stroke and subsequent brain hemorrhage on September 29, 1967at the age of 50. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Carson McCullers

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) 10,665 exemplares
The Member of the Wedding (1946) 2,818 exemplares
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941) 1,032 exemplares
Clock Without Hands (1961) 674 exemplares
The Mortgaged Heart (1971) 240 exemplares
The Member of the Wedding: A Play (1951) 182 exemplares
The haunted boy : a short story (2018) 74 exemplares
Wunderkind (1974) 42 exemplares
Seven Contemporary Short Novels [Third Edition] (1997) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
Seven Contemporary Short Novels [second edition] (1969) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
Shorter Novels and Stories (1972) 15 exemplares
The Square Root of Wonderful (1971) 13 exemplares
Romans et nouvelles (1994) 11 exemplares
El mudo y otros textos (2007) 10 exemplares
¿Quién ha visto el viento? (2013) 9 exemplares
Sucker (1963) 8 exemplares
Contos Escolhidos (2012) 7 exemplares
The Jockey (1941) 5 exemplares
The Sojourner 3 exemplares
The March (1968) 2 exemplares
Meistererzählungen. (1991) 1 exemplar
A Haunted Boy 1 exemplar
A Domestic Dilemma 1 exemplar
The Orphanage 1 exemplar
Poldi 1 exemplar
Correspondence 1 exemplar
Untitled Piece 1 exemplar
The Aliens 1 exemplar
A Hospital Christmas Eve (1967) 1 exemplar
Books I remember 1 exemplar
A Child's View of Christmas (1961) 1 exemplar
The Discovery of Christmas (1953) 1 exemplar
Like that 1 exemplar
The pestle 1 exemplar

Associated Works

50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Contribuidor — 1,242 exemplares
Short Story Masterpieces (1954) — Contribuidor — 675 exemplares
As I Lay Dying [Norton Critical Edition] (2009) — Contribuidor — 544 exemplares
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contribuidor — 461 exemplares
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Contribuidor — 430 exemplares
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Contribuidor — 365 exemplares
Diane Goode's American Christmas (1754) — Contribuidor — 297 exemplares
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Contribuidor — 275 exemplares
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 267 exemplares
Famous American Plays of the 1940s (1900) — Contribuidor — 232 exemplares
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Contribuidor — 98 exemplares
Who Do You Think You Are?: Stories of Friends and Enemies (1993) — Contribuidor — 94 exemplares
Best American Plays: Third Series, 1945-1951 (1952) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940 to 1950 (1949) — Contribuidor — 60 exemplares
Art of Fiction (1967) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1943 (1943) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
The Seasons of Women: An Anthology (1995) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
Point of Departure (1967) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre [4-volume set] (1969) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Mothers and Daughters: An Anthology (1998) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Hey-How for Halloween! (1974) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1997) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Vogue's First Reader (1942) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Great Short Stories of the World (1965) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1964 (1964) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Reflections in a Golden Eye [1967 film] (1967) — Original novel — 24 exemplares
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Eight Short Novels (1967) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1944 (1944) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Twentieth-Century American Short Stories: An Anthology (1975) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter [1968 film] (1968) — Original book — 10 exemplares
Great Tales of City Dwellers (1955) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Best modern short stories (1965) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
The Short Story & You (1987) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
20th Century American Short Stories, Volume 2 — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Twelve short novels (1976) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 3 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Smith, Lula Carson (born)
Data de nascimento
1917-02-19
Data de falecimento
1967-12-29
Localização do túmulo
Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack (Rockland County) New York (Rockland County)
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
VS
Local de nascimento
Columbus, Georgia, USA
Local de falecimento
Nyack, New York, USA
Causa da morte
brain hemorrhage
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA
Educação
Columbia University
Washington Square College
Ocupações
novelist
short-story writer
playwright
Relações
McCullers, Reeves (husband)
Smith, Margarita G. (sister)
Organizações
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1952)
February House
Yaddo
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Prémios e menções honrosas
Georgia Women of Achievement (1994)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1943)
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame

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Carson McCullers reinvented herself after leaving home at age 17 to study at the Juilliard School of Music in Manhattan. Something happened to make her lose the money and she never attended the school.  Instead, she worked and took night classes at university.  Her published writing began to appear in 1936.  She suffered throughout her life from serious illness, including rheumatic fever and several strokes. By the age of 31, her left side was completely paralyzed.  Her work, usually set in the South of her birth, often focused on people seen as misfits and outcasts.

Membros

Discussions

GROUP READ: [The Heart is a Lonely Hunter] em 2013 Category Challenge (Setembro 2013)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter em The Clocks Have All Stopped (Abril 2012)

Críticas

 
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BooksInMirror | 243 outras críticas | Feb 19, 2024 |
NOTE: Read only the tititular story (for book club).

Thought it had potential based on the set-up, but the set-up seemed to span about 90% of the story. The "climax" was anticlimactic and I was left with more questions by the end than I had started with. The characters interested me and I found the setting to be quite lifelike and captivating, but the plot just didn't deliver.
 
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Estatísticas

Obras
85
Also by
54
Membros
20,216
Popularidade
#1,073
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
457
ISBN
457
Línguas
24
Marcado como favorito
124

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