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Author:
Mary V. Dearborn
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
February 27, 2024
The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America's greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals
What The Reviewers Say
Carefully researched and smartly rendered.
The time is ripe...for a more clear-eyed appraisal.
It is competent and professional, as if built from solid pine and good plaster. It is dispassionate and well researched. Reading it is brutal because McCullers’s life was brutal to endure.
Dearborn...has accepted the challenge of giving us a fuller, deeper view of this most prodigiously gifted and destructive character.
