One night in June 1953, Carson McCullers, once America’s enfant terrible novelist, urgently summoned to her Paris hotel room her close friend Tennessee Williams. She needed Broadway’s reigning ...

Now that Carson McCullers (1917-67) is a figure of the past, a “classic” to be doled out to high-school and college students, it’s invigorating to be reminded how she stunned the literary ...

Chihaya’s version of bibliophobia grew out of the fear of one book in particular—the monograph that her career demanded and ...

Novelist Carson McCullers (1917-67), noted for her exploration of the dilemmas of modern American life in the context of the 20th-century South, was born Feb. 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia.

Buy it here. 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter' by Carson McCullers (1940) This is an incredible first novel. The depth of McCullers' understanding and empathy for her many characters got me.

One of the greatest American novels, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, dramatised by poet Amanda Dalton, explores loneliness, understanding and the search for love.