The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings - Softcover

McCullers, Carson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618057056 ISBN 13: 9780618057054

Publisher: Mariner Books Classics, 2005

Synopsis

An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America's finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers's work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. As new generations of readers continue to discover her work, Carson McCullers's celebrated place in American letters survives more surely than ever. Edited by McCullers's sister and with a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, The Mortgaged Heart will be an inspiration to writers young and old.

About this title

About the Author:

Margarita Smith was a magazine writer and editor, and the sister of author Carson McCullers. She edited McCuller's posthumous publication The Mortgaged Heart.

Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation. On September 29, 1967, at age fifty, she died in Nyack, New York, where she is buried.

From the Back Cover:

Here are some of the landmarks in the development of McCullers's marvellous literary career: 'Wunderkind', her first published story, 'The Mute', her outline of what was to become The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, as well as pieces on Brooklyn, her neighbourhood, on civilian life in wartime, on Christmas, on writers, and her reflections, which were beautifully realised, on the art of writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0618057056
• ISBN 13: 9780618057054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292