![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a graduate of the playwriting MFA at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Arizona School for the Arts. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland 5.0 (1) Paperback 16.95 Hardcover 20.49 Paperback 16.95 eBook 12.99 Audiobook 33.99 Audio MP3 on CD 24.99 Audio CD 32. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is a must-read for fans of McCullers, but it will also be of interest to fans of cross-genre writers like Maggie Nelson, Eileen Myles, and Hilton Als.Īndy Boyd is a playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir Paperback, 16.95 15.76, English Hardcover, 22.95, English Compact Disc, 32.99, English MP3 CD, 24.99. Auden all make memorable appearances in its pages. ![]() It is also a portrait of a vibrant queer community existing beneath the placid surface of mid-century America: Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Gypsy Rose Lee, and W.H. McCullers was a lesbian, but many of her biographers have shied away from this aspect of her life, referring to her partners as "friends" or "obsessions." Shapland's book is a bold work of historical reclamation, insisting we view McCullers as a queer writer and drawing attention to previously-obscured elements of queerness in her work. Jenn Shapland's My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House Books, 2020) is a fascinating cross-genre book that combines elements of traditional biography with Shapland's own personal narrative of researching McCullers and discovering the many ways her life and McCullers' mirror each other. ![]()
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