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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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Verk av Carson McCullers

Hjärtat jagar allena (1940) 10,665 exemplar
The Member of the Wedding (1946) 2,818 exemplar
Balladen om det sorgsna kaféet (1943) 2,454 exemplar
Spegling i ett gyllne öga (1941) 1,032 exemplar
Klocka utan visare (1961) 674 exemplar
The Mortgaged Heart (1971) 240 exemplar
Bröllopsgästen (1951) 182 exemplar
Balladen om det sorgsna kaféet (1951) 177 exemplar
Wunderkind (1974) 42 exemplar
Seven Contemporary Short Novels [Third Edition] (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 40 exemplar
Seven Contemporary Short Novels [second edition] (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 35 exemplar
Shorter Novels and Stories (1972) 15 exemplar
The Ballad of the Sad Café / Reflections in a Golden Eye (1971) — Författare — 13 exemplar
The Square Root of Wonderful (1971) 13 exemplar
Romans et nouvelles (1994) 11 exemplar
El mudo y otros textos (2007) 10 exemplar
¿Quién ha visto el viento? (2013) 9 exemplar
Sucker (1963) 8 exemplar
Contos Escolhidos (2012) 7 exemplar
The Jockey (1941) 5 exemplar
The Sojourner 3 exemplar
The March (1968) 2 exemplar
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

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

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Smith, Lula Carson (born)
Födelsedag
1917-02-19
Avled
1967-12-29
Begravningsplats
Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack (Rockland County) New York (Rockland County)
Kön
female
Nationalitet
VS
Födelseort
Columbus, Georgia, USA
Dödsort
Nyack, New York, USA
Dödsorsak
brain hemorrhage
Bostadsorter
New York, New York, USA
Utbildning
Columbia University
Washington Square College
Yrken
novelist
short-story writer
playwright
Relationer
McCullers, Reeves (husband)
Smith, Margarita G. (sister)
Organisationer
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1952)
February House
Yaddo
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Priser och utmärkelser
Georgia Women of Achievement (1994)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1943)
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
Kort biografi
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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Diskussioner

GROUP READ: [The Heart is a Lonely Hunter] i 2013 Category Challenge (september 2013)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter i The Clocks Have All Stopped (april 2012)

Recensioner

Några udda personligheter i 1930-talets Sydstater. De har alla drömmar och längtar efter kärlek. Men livet är hårt och de känner inte att de når fram med sina önskningar. Den dövstumme Singer är den ende som förstår vad de vill med sina liv. Han lyssnar snällt men förstår inte mycket av vad de säger. Välskriven med ett levande persongalleri. En klassiker, tidlös och engagerande.
 
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pettersson | 243 andra recensioner | May 28, 2014 |
En säregen bok, som gjorde mig lite otålig under läsningen, samtidigt som jag tyckte att den var bra. Fina personskildringar av udda karaktärer.
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LottaBerling | 243 andra recensioner | Nov 4, 2012 |

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