She had the idea for the title novella when she and editor George Davis
and poet W. H. Auden
were in a bar where other customers included a woman who was tall and strong as...
Friends, Associates
Carson McCullers
CMC
made a strong and enduring friendship in her forties with Mary Mercer
, a therapist who treated her for depression. Other friends made in her late years were Edward Albee
and John Huston
...