Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American writer. She wrote fiction that explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts of the South.

Works

Novels

• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
• Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941)
• The Member of the Wedding (1946)
• Clock Without Hands (1961)

Other works

• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1951), a collection of short stories, including the novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.
• The Square Root of Wonderful (1958), a play.
• Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig (1964), a collection of poems.
• The Mortgaged Heart (1972), a posthumous collection of writings, edited by her sister Rita.
• Illumination and Night Glare (1999), her unfinished autobiography, published nearly 30 years after her death.