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Carson Smith McCullers
Born: February 19, 1917
Instead of focusing all her energy on music, she began to read, and then her reading led to writing. She graduated from Columbus High School in 1933 and stayed in Georgia for a year writing stories and plays. She sensed that she would not make it big in her surroundings, so she packed up and headed for New York City. Here she strived to become a better writer. It was a struggle to earn enough money to attend writing school, but she persevered and was able to enroll in Columbia's writing courses. She spent the next several years perfecting her craft, interrupting her studies and her writing to return home periodically to rejuvenate herself when her health dipped. But New York was the place for her and her writing. She grew acquainted with other literary people in New York, becoming an accepted literary person herself. She married and kept up her writing even through times of personal troubles and hardships.
Carson McCullers began to be published during
the late 1930's, and by the early 1940's, she was established as a modern writer.
During this period, she wrote novels, stories, and essays that became very successful.
Writing was McCullers' life, and she was one of the most prolific authors of her
time, with dozens and dozens of literary achievements to her credit.
Many of these works are still quite popular. We offer you the following
links to Amazon.com so that you can add these Carson McCullers pieces to your own
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Carson Smith McCullers was born on February
19, 1917 in Columbus, Georgia. She began taking piano lessons as a young girl, and
she soon became quite comfortable with the keyboard. By the time she entered
Columbus High School, she had convinced herself that the piano would be her life's
work and that she was going to become a concert pianist. She studied and practiced,
and set her sights on attending a good music school, perhaps even New York's Julliard
School of Music. But life does not always go as planned. McCullers suffered from
a severe bout with rheumatic fever during her high school years, and the disease
took a heavy toll on her health. She spent months recuperating, and she never
really regained the health of her early youth. As a result, she practiced her
music less and less until she no longer dreamed of making a career as a pianist.