![]() ![]() ![]() Reeves McCullers died in 1953 from an overdose of alcohol and barbituates, an apparent suicide.Ĭarson McCullers' adult life was a mixture of emotional unhappiness and bad health, but with luminous talent she drew upon her empathy and experience to compose resonant, ballad-like stories about the inner lives of marginal, often physically or psychologically scarred characters who were tormented by loneliness. The marriage was a tempestuous one, marked by separations and reunions, divorce and remarriage, alcoholism and suicide attempts. They moved to North Carolina, living there for two years, during which time she wrote The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. There she published her first story in 1936 and, in 1937, married Reeves McCullers, a serviceman and aspiring writer. Unlike O'Connor and Welty, McCullers left the South at seventeen and lived mainly in New York and Paris for all her adult life, yet her settings and characters are frequently Southern.īorn Lula Carson Smith, she moved to New York at seventeen to study piano but ended up studying creative writing at Columbia and NYU instead. ![]() ![]() Carson McCullers is often mentioned in one breath with such preeminent figures of Southern literature as her contemporaries Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty. ![]()
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