carson mccullers

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Carson McCullers (1917-1967, born Lula Carson Smith), U.S. novelist
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{i} (1917-1967, born Lula Carson Smith), U.S. novelist
a US writer whose novels include The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Reflections in a Golden Eye. Her best-known short stories are included in the collection The Ballad of the Sad Café. She often wrote about loneliness, and many of her characters are people who do not fit into ordinary society (1917-67). orig. Lula Carson Smith born Feb. 19, 1917, Columbus, Ga., U.S. died Sept. 29, 1967, Nyack, N.Y. U.S. novelist and short-story writer. She studied at Columbia and New York universities and eventually settled in New York's Greenwich Village. A series of strokes she suffered as a child left her partly paralyzed. She typically set her stories in small Southern communities and depicted the inner lives of lonely people. Her novels include The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), perhaps her finest work; Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941); The Member of the Wedding (1946), which she adapted into a play (1950); and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951), dramatized by Edward Albee in 1963. Each of these was adapted for film
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{n} Carson McCullers (1917-1967, née sous le nom de Lula Carson Smith), romancière américaine