Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers belongs to the finest tradition of post-war American prose. She was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917. Her first novel, "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," was published in 1940. This was followed by "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1941), "The Member of the Wedding" (1946), which achieved great success and was adapted by the author for the Royal Theatre in London, "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1951), "A Clock Without Hands" (1961), "Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig" (poems, 1964), "The Mortgaged Heart" (1971), among others. In 1945, she was honored with the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, of which she later became a member, and in 1950, she received the New York Critics Circle Award. "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" was adapted for the stage by Edward Albee. She wrote many short stories, including "A Tree; a Rock; a Cloud," published in "Harper's Bazaar" in 1942, which is included in many anthologies of American short stories. She passed away in New York in 1967. More biographical details and a complete bibliography of Carson McCullers can be found on the "The Carson McCullers Project" website: www.carson-mccullers.com.