Carson McCullers

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Scope:  Carson McCullers was educated at Columbia and New York University. She was a member of the Southern gothic school of writing style. She received the National Institute of Arts and Literature grant in 1943 and the New York Drama Circle Award in 1950 for A Member of the Wedding. Her themes are mans loneliness and alienation. McCullers is best known for her works The Member of the Wedding, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. And Reflections in a Golden Eye.

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Books of Carson McCullers works are listed in the Baddour Library's  on-line catalog under Mcullers, Carson, and under individual titles, i.e. "The Member of the Wedding."

Books written by and about Carson McCullers have the call number(s) PS 3525.H1772 M4

Some representative books from the Circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

McCullers, Carson. Carson McCullers, Complete Novels. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001.

CRITICAL SOURCES

There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic:

REF Z 1231 F4G4 The American Novel

REF Z1231.FR57 Contemporary Fiction in America and England, 1950-1970

REF PR 821.C7 1991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction Vol.5

REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Southern Literary Journal

• American Literature
   

WEB SITES

The Carson McCullers Project
http://www.carson-mccullers.com/index.html/

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Updated 08/16/2007