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Carson McCullers was critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946). Marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation, her novels frequently depicted small town life in the southeastern United States. McCullers is considered to be a member of the "Southern gothic" tradition in American literature, and is often compared to writers like Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. Her characters include tortured adolescents, homosexuals, and outcasts from conventional society.
| Genre: | American Gothic, Fiction |
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| Birth Date: | Feb 19, 1917 |
| Birth Place: | Columbus, Georgia, United States |
| Website: | http://www.carson-mccullers.com/ |
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I largely enjoyed the story and the writing and the exploration of race relations in the South. However, similar to most of what Upton Sinclair has written, it is also used as a vehicle to preach socialist/communist/unionizing rhetoric to the masses.
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