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The Collected Works of Carson McCullers (boxed set)

Edited by Carlos L. Dews

“Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure. . . . Her genius for prose remains one of the few satisfying achievements of our second-rate culture.”—Gore Vidal

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Overview

Story of the Week Carson McCullers, “Home for Christmas”

Story of the Week Carson McCullers, “The Great Eaters of Georgia”

Interviews New LOA collection reveals Carson McCullers as “much more than a novelist”

For the first time in one authoritative edition, the collected writings of the celebrated author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding.

Carson McCullers was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917. At the age of nineteen she published her first short story, “Wunderkind” in Story magazine, and soon was contributing fiction to The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, and Mademoiselle. She won early critical and commercial success with her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), published when she was only twenty-three. Over the next quarter-century she published four more novels and a collection of short stories, and found Broadway success with her play The Member of the Wedding (produced in 1950). After a series of increasingly debilitating strokes, she died in Nyack, N.Y., in 1967, at the age of fifty.

Carlos L. Dews is the editor of the two-volume Library of America Carson McCullers edition as well a Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999). He is chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at John Cabot University, Rome, and the Director of JCU’s Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation.

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News & Views

Story of the Week Carson McCullers, “Home for Christmas”

Story of the Week Carson McCullers, “The Great Eaters of Georgia”

Interviews New LOA collection reveals Carson McCullers as “much more than a novelist”

Influences Nick Norwood: What Carson McCullers knew about cotton mills and misery

The Moviegoer Reflections in a Golden Eye: a “hothouse tale” of desire and simmering violence

Story of the Week Carson McCullers, “Wunderkind”

The Moviegoer All-American loneliness and “a universe of yearnings” in The Member of the Wedding

News Suzanne Vega talks about Carson McCullers
Table of Contents

Complete Novels
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Reflections in a Golden Eye
The Ballad of the Sad Café
The Member of the Wedding
Clock Without Hands

Complete Stories
Sucker
Court in the West Eighties
Poldi
Breath from the Sky
The Orphanage
Instant of the Hour After
Like That
Wunderkind
The Aliens
Untitled Piece
The Jockey
Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland
Correspondence
A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
Art and Mr. Mahoney
The Sojourner
A Domestic Dilemma
The Haunted Boy
Who Has Seen the Wind?
The March

The Member of the Wedding: A Play

The Sojourner

The Square Root of Wonderful

Essays and Other Writings
Christmas
     Home for Christmas
     The Discovery of Christmas
     A Hospital Christmas Eve
The War Years
     Look Homeward, Americans
     Night Watch Over Freedom
     We Carried Our Banners—We Were Pacifists, Too
     Love’s Not Time’s Fool (by a War Wife)
     Our Heads Are Bowed
American Places, American Identity
     Brooklyn Is My Neighbourhood
     Loneliness . . . An American Malady
     The Great Eaters of Georgia
Books and Authors
     Books I Remember
     The Russian Realists and Southern Literature
     Isak Dinesen: Winter’s Tales
     Isak Dinesen: In Praise of Radiance
The Writer’s Work
     How I Began to Write
     Author’s Outline of “The Mute”
     The Flowering Dream: Notes on Writing
The Theater
     The Vision Shared
     Playwright Tells of Pangs
     The Dark Brilliance of Edward Albee

Poems
The Mortgaged Heart
When We Are Lost
The Dual Angel
Stone Is Not Stone
Saraband

Autobiography
Illumination and Night Glare

Appendix
The Sojourner: Broadcast Transcription

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