Virginia spencer carr

  • Virginia Spencer Carr (July 21, – April 10, ) was a biographer of Carson McCullers, John Dos Passos and Paul Bowles.
  • Virginia Spencer Carr, a literary scholar whose book “The Lonely Hunter” remains the standard biography of Carson McCullers, died on April.
  • Virginia Spencer Carr was a biographer of Carson McCullers, John Dos Passos and Paul Bowles.

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    Virginia Spencer Carr

    Collected Stories: Including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café
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    The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
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    Flowering Judas
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    Paul Bowles: A Life
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    Understanding Carson McCullers
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    Dos Passos
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    孤独な狩人―カーソン・マッカラーズ伝
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    Studies in the Literary Imagination: Flannery O'Connor and the South, Volume XX, No. 2, Fall
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    Studies in the Literary Imagination: The Other Lawrence Durrell.
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    Virginia Spencer Carr

    Georgia Connections

    • Atlanta, Fulton County, Professor and Chair, English Department, Georgia State University

    Notes of Interest

    Virginia Spencer Carr was a distinguished literary scholar who wrote the definitive biography of Georgia author Carson McCullers ("Lonely Hunter") and notable biographies of American writers John Dos Passos and Paul Bowles. In addition, she wrote books and essays examining the work of a number of other authors and chaired the English Department at Georgia State University in Atlanta during an important period of institutional growth. She was emerita distinguished professor at GSU since her retirement in , after which she moved to Massachusetts. She died there on April 10,

    Virginia Spencer Carr was born July 21, , in West Palm Beach, Florida. She has said she knew from the age of 12 after taking a play-writing course with her mother and brother that she would someday be a writer. She also determined early that she would devote h

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    Understanding Carson McCullers

    The definitive introduction to the complex author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    Updated with a discussion of recent scholarship, Understanding Carson McCullers provides a balanced introductory study of the Georgia-born novelist's major fiction and the reasons for her extraordinary and lasting acclaim. Carson McCullers was deemed the "find of the decade" when she appeared on the literary scene at the age of twenty-three and is best remembered for her celebrated novels The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding. Through Virginia Spencer Carr's insightful discussion and lucid analysis of these and lesser-known works, McCullers is shown here as more than a southern writer, more than a lesbian novelist. McCullers emerges as a complex and multifaceted artist not yet fully comprehended and deserving of more contemplative study and thoughtful understanding.

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