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(1917-1967) Writer, playwright, novelist. Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia, attended Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, and lived and died in Nyack, New York.

Full Name

Carson McCullers

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

Carson McCullers attended Columbia University in Manhattan, New York.

1917

BIRTH

Lula Carson Smith was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917.

1940

LITWORK

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter


Novel.

1940

RESIDENCE

In the early 1940s, Carson McCullers lived for a time with Benjamin Britten and W. H. Auden at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York, where she was a member of the February House art commune.

1941

LITWORK

Reflections in a Golden Eye


Novel.

1946

LITWORK

The Member of the Wedding


Novel.

1951

LITWORK

The Ballad of the Sad Caf��


Short story collection and novella.

1957

LITWORK

The Square Root of Wonderful


Play.

1961

LITWORK

Clock Without Hands


Novel.

1964

LITWORK

Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig


Poetry collection.

1967

DEATH

Carson McCullers died in Nyack, New York, in 1967.

1967

INTERMENT

Carson McCullers was interred at Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, Rockland County, New York.

1999

LITWORK

Illumination and Night Glare


Unfinished autobiography.

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