McCullers, Carson

1. A twentieth-century American writer whose short stories and novels , set mainly in the South, portray the spiritual loneliness of outcasts and misfits. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , was published when McCullers was twenty-three. The Member of the Wedding was adapted for a memorable Broadway play and a 1952 film.

Example Sentences

None of these characters would be caught dead in a novel by John Steinbeck, Carson McCullers, or Eudora Welty.

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