“I'm one who knows. I'm a stranger in a strange land.”
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Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes. Most are set in the Deep South.
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culture · American writer (1917–1967) · poet · novelist · playwright · writer · screenwriter · prose writer · also Carson McCullers, Lula Carson Smith, McCullers
Born 19 February 1917 · Died 29 September 1967 · Q230591
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2026· 9 entries
“I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?”
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“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
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“The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear.”
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“All we can do is go around telling the truth.”
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“It is far better for the profits of our purse to be taken from us than to be robbed of the riches of our minds and souls.”
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“Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.”
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“Writing, for me, is a search for God”
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American Songwriter: Suzanne Vega’s Fascination With Novelist Carson McCullers and How She Brought Her Story to Life in Her One-Woman Show, ‘Lover, Beloved’
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2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: How to watch first documentary film about Columbus native Carson McCullers
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers review – identity parade
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2020· 1 entry
American writer Jenn Shapland published My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, which recounts Shapland's discovery of McCullers' letters to Swiss writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Carson McCullers at 100: a century of American suffering
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Who is the greatest American novelist? 6: Thomas Pynchon v Carson McCullers
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2012· 1 entry
The Guardian: Overlooked classics: The Member Of The Wedding by Carson McCullers
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Georgia Women of Achievement (1994).
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1967· 2 entries
Died 1967-09-29.
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At the age of 50, after a brain hemorrhage
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1962· 1 entry
Had a breast cancer surgery and mastectomy
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1953· 1 entry
Reeves tried to persuade her to commit suicide with him, but she fled and Reeves killed himself in their Paris hotel with an overdose of sleeping pills
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1946).
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1945· 1 entry
Carson and Reeves McCullers remarried
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1944· 1 entry
When McCullers's father died, her mother left Columbus and moved to Nyack, New York, where she bought her daughter's famed Nyack home
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1942· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1942).
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1940· 2 entries
At the age of 23, writing in the Southern Gothic or perhaps Southern realist traditions, McCullers completed her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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When she was 23, and said she was the first white writer to create fully human black characters
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1939· 1 entry
(then titled The Mute), McCullers and her husband moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she completed Reflections in a Golden Eye (then titled Army Post) in the span of two months
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1936· 1 entry
Published her first work, "Wunderkind", an autobiographical piece that Bates admired, depicting a music prodigy's adolescent insecurity and losses
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1917· 2 entries
Born 1917-02-19.
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To Lamar Smith, a jeweler, and Marguerite Waters
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