About the Author

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.

Reviews

Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories
*The New York Times*

Unexpectedly moving, grimly amusing, intensely atmospheric
*The Times*

The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass
*Tennessee Williams*

Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure
*Gore Vidal*

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