My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

by Jenn Shapland

Book Overview

While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie-letters that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters' language-but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her.

And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947793284
• ISBN13: 9781947793286
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"