For four years, says CMC
's biographer, the fulcrum of her physical and psychic existence was Mary Tucker
.
Carr, Virginia Spencer. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers. Doubleday and Co. Inc., 1975.
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The teenage Carson was very upset when she heard that her mentor's husband, a colonel...
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
...
Instructor
Carson McCullers
Carson (she dropped the name Lula as she entered adolescence) found her home life isolated and stultifying. Her great consolation and delight was studying the piano, in which her teacher from the age of thirteen...
Literary Setting
Carson McCullers
This novel is set in an army post, modelled on Fort Benning (which is partly in Alabama) although just outside Columbus, Georgia), where Mary Tucker
's husband was stationed. An army post is a...
