Carson McCullers

Born: 1917 in Columbus, Georgia

• The settings in her books are frequently Southern

• Carson moved to New York at 17 to study piano but ended up studying creative writing

• McCullers has lived mainly in New York and Paris for all her adult life

• She wrote The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

• Had a lot of separations and reunions, divorce and remarriage, alcoholism and suicide attempts

  • These influenced her writing

• Died in 1953 from an overdose of alcohol and apparent suicide

Died: 1967 in New York