Carson McCullers
19-Feb-1917
United States
Novelist
Born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, Carson McCuller achieved her first critical success and commercialized her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. During WWII, the McCullers lived in France House, the Brooklyn artist's home, where words such as W.H. Integrated, contradictory and structured functions are studied. Despite coming from Southern Gothic culture, McCullers wrote all the fiction after leaving the South. She died in Nyack, New York, at the age of 50.