biography
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McCullers, (Lula) Carson
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née Smith
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| female
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| lived:
| (1917–67)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Columbus, Georgia, USA. She studied at Columbia and New York universities. She married and divorced Reeves McCullers twice (1937–41, 1945–8). From the age of 29, paralysis of one side confined her to a wheelchair. Her work reflects the sadness of lonely people, and her first book, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), about a deaf mute, distinguished her immediately as a novelist of note. She wrote the best and the bulk of her work in a six-year burst through World War 2, including the novella The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951), which was dramatized by Edward Albee. |
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