As a teenager the future CMC
supported social reformers, strikers, and communist writers.
Carr, Virginia Spencer. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers. Doubleday and Co. Inc.
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Her sympathy with the aspirations of deprived and oppressed black people in the South was evident from her first book onwards...
Friends, Associates
Carson McCullers
Other friends who not of this group but who were important to CMC
included several distinguished writers: Eudora Welty
, Katherine Anne Porter
, Tennessee Williams
, Elizabeth Ames
(director of the writers' community at...
Dedications
Carson McCullers
CMC
published a novel titled The Member of the Wedding, dedicated to Elizabeth Ames
.
Dews, Carlos L., and Carson McCullers. “Chronology and Notes”. Complete Novels, Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States, pp. 807-27.