Carson McCullers (1917–1967)
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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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di Carson McCullers
Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1987) 612 copie
Complete Novels: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member… (2001) 552 copie
Three Novels: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Others Stories, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and The Member of The… (1991) 82 copie
Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Café / The Member of the Wedding (1974) 46 copie
The Ballad of The Sad Café / The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Member of the Wedding /… (1951) — Autore — 9 copie
Alle verhalen Carson McCullers ; vertaald door en met een nawoord van Molly van Gelder (2021) 6 copie
The Sojourner 3 copie
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Wunderkind; The Jockey; Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland; The Sojourner; A Domestic… (2000) 2 copie
Coração Solitário Caçador 2 copie
McCullers, Carson Archive 2 copie
Instant of the Hour After 1 copia
Art and Mr. Mahoney 1 copia
A Haunted Boy 1 copia
Rellotge sense busques. Tasta'm 1 copia
Poldi 1 copia
Court in the West Eighties 1 copia
A Domestic Dilemma 1 copia
Komu ukazał się wiatr? 1 copia
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunte 1 copia
Balada tristei cafenele 1 copia
The Aliens 1 copia
Correspondence 1 copia
The Orphanage 1 copia
Die Ballade vom traurigen Café. Dramatisiert von Edward Albee (Insel-Bücherei Nr. 1004) [Pappe] (1975) 1 copia
Untitled Piece 1 copia
The ballad fo the sad Cafe 1 copia
The pestle 1 copia
Carson McCullers-member choice 1 copia
Books I remember 1 copia
Breath from the sky 1 copia
Like that 1 copia
Stone is not stone : a poem 1 copia
To bear the truth alone 1 copia
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Martin Beck Theatre (October 30, 1963-February 15, 1964) Playbill 1 copia
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / The Member of the Wedding / Reflections in a Golden Eye (2010) — Autore — 1 copia
Who Has Seen the Wind? 1 copia
Opere correlate
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Collaboratore — 440 copie
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 182 copie
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Collaboratore — 138 copie
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Collaboratore — 46 copie
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Georgia Stories: Major Georgia Short Fiction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1992) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Het neusje van de zalm een feestelijke bloemlezing uit Querido's 'vlaggetjesreeks' (1986) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Critics' Choice: New York Drama Critics' Circle Prize Plays, 1935-1955 (1945) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
20th Century American Short Stories, Volume 2 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Human Commitment - An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The Haunted Boy, Sphinx, Lead Her Like a Pigeon, Red Wind, The Eighty-Yard Run (Selections from Reader's Digst… (1980) 1 copia
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 3 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Smith, Lula Carson (born)
- Data di nascita
- 1917-02-19
- Data di morte
- 1967-12-29
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack (Rockland County) New York (Rockland County)
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- VS
- Luogo di nascita
- Columbus, Georgia, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Nyack, New York, USA
- Causa della morte
- brain hemorrhage
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Columbia University
Washington Square College - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
playwright - Relazioni
- McCullers, Reeves (husband)
Smith, Margarita G. (sister) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1952)
February House
Yaddo
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Georgia Women of Achievement (1994)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1943)
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame - Breve biografia
- 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.
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GROUP READ: [The Heart is a Lonely Hunter] in 2013 Category Challenge (Settembre 2013)
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