February 19, 1917: Carson McCullers Born
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Suggested Readings Harold Bloom, ed., Carson McCullers, Modern Critical Views Series (New York: Chelsea House, 1986).
Virginia Spencer Carr, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975; reprint, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003).
Virginia Spencer Carr, Understanding Carson McCullers (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990).
Beverly Lyon Clark and Melvin J. Friedman, eds., Critical Essays on Carson McCullers (New York: G. K. Hall, 1996).
Richard Cook, Carson McCullers (New York: Ungar, 1975).
Dale Edmonds, Carson McCullers (Austin, Texas: Steck-Vaughn, 1969).
Oliver Evans, The Ballad of Carson McCullers (New York: Coward-McCann, 1966).
Lawrence Graver, Carson McCullers (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969).
Judith Giblin James, Wunderkind: The Reputation of Carson McCullers, 1940-1990 (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1995).
Margaret B. McDowell, Carson McCullers (Boston: Twayne, 1980).
Josyane Savigneau, Carson McCullers: A Life, trans. Joan E. Howard (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).
Adrian M. Shapiro et al., Carson McCullers: A Descriptive Listing and Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1980).
Louise Westling, Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985).
Carson McCullers (1917-1967). New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-557&sug=y
The Carson McCullers Project: http://www.carson-mccullers.com/
Carson McCullers collection, 1941-1975 Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library Permanent link: http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8zmvh
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Carson and Reeves at Piazza San Marco Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Carson and Reeves, young, outdoors Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Carson as a toddler, seated reading a book Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Carson seated at table with cigarette and typewriter Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
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Carson seated on couch Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Carson sitting on sidewalk Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Carson, passport photo Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Clock Without Hands, First Edition
President Roosevelt in Atlanta in car, LBP39-135a Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library
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Rita, Mrs. Smith, Reeves and Carson standing outside home Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Tennessee Williams, 1965 Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-128957
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Young Reeves, headshot outdoors Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
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