Carson McCullers was born at Columbus, Georgia, in 1917. She published The Heart is a Lonely Hunter at the age of twenty-three. Her other works include Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), The Member of the Wedding (1946), The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1951), The Square Root of Wonderful (1958), a play, Clock Without Hands (1961), Sweet as a Pickle, Clean as a Pig (1964) and The Mortgaged Heart (published posthumously in 1972). She died in 1967.
The greatest prose writer that the South produced
*Tennessee Williams*
Again [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct
for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds
*New York Herald-Tribune*
A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The
Turn of the Screw
*Time*
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