Carson McCullers debuts
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
O n this day, Carson McCullers’ first novel “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” was published in 1940. The process of writing it didn’t come easily, she wrote. "For a whole year I worked on “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” without understanding it at all. Each character was talking to a central character, but why, I didn't know. I'd almost decided that the book was...