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.

A landmark biography..

Absorbing.

A penetrating portrait.

Drawing on abundant archival material, much not available to earlier biographers, Dearborn offers a thorough, passionate recounting of the life of Carson McCullers.