Related Non-Fiction THE HEART IS A [ The Lonely Hunter: a Biography of Carson McCullers by Virginia

LONELY HUNTER Spencer Carr Suggestions for Further Reading [ The Republic of Imagination: American in Three Books by Azar Nafisi [ February House by Sherrill Tippins

“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.” [ Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love by Myron Uhlberg Other Works by Carson McCullers [ A Loss for Words: the Story of Deafness in a Family by Lou Ann [ Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941) Walker [ The Member of The Wedding (1946) [ Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World by Leah Hager Cohen [ Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (1951) [ Clock Without Hands (1961) [ Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily [ The Mortgaged Heart a posthumous collection (1971) Bingham [ The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South ed. Douglas Ray McCullers’ The Modern South Contemporaries [ Black Man in a White Coat: a Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy, M.D. [ The Long Home by William Gay Paul Bowles Truman Capote [ Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons [ South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature by Margaret Eby Flannery O’Connor  [ Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock Walker Percy Eudora Welty [ Swamplandia by Karen Russell [ Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression Richard Wright by Morris Dickstein [ Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 by David E. Kyvig Small Towns, Race Relations, The Depression, and More [ Ava’s Man by Rick Bragg [ Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell [ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [ Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron More information on the books in this list [ All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren and other reading suggestions can be found at

[ The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists ed. William Ferris jmrl.org/wiki/The_Heart_is_a_Lonely_Hunter [ Downhome: an Anthology of Southern Women Writers ed. Susie Mee jmrl.org/bigread JD MN 1/16