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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease.
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Birth: | 19th February, 1917 |
Death: | 29th September, 1967 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter |
Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia. She was an American novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the U.S. South. Her stories have been adapted to stage and film. A stagework of her novel The Member of the Wedding, which captures a young girl's feelings at her brother's wedding, made a successful Broadway run in 1950–51.
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