Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers
Nele Otsmann
12A
Early Life
· Born on 19 February 1917 in Columbus,
Georgia
· From a middle class family
· From the age of 10 she took piano lessons
· 15 years old got her first typewriter
· At the age of 17 she left home to study piano
at Juilliard School of Music in New York City.
· In 1936 "Wunderkind" - autobiographical
Marriage and Career
· 09/1937 married with Reeves McCullers
· Moved to Charlotte, North Carolina wrote her 1st
novel "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (the title was
taken from Fiona MacLeod's poem "The Lonely
Hunter")
· Book was interpreted as an anti-fascist book
· Altogether she published 8 books
· In 1941 divorced and in 1945 remarried
Emotional Struggles
· In 1948 attempted suicide while depressed
· In 1953 tried to convince her husband to
commit suicide with him
· After Carson's death, Reeves made suicide
with an overdose of sleepin...
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