The Plain Dealer Overview News & Views add to cart 31.50 List Price: 35. The results reveal something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer love stories. Dews McCullers’s novels, collected for the first time by The Library of America, are proof yet again that the lesser work of a great author is usually better than the best work of a minor one. As Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing distance between her and McCullers, she sees the way McCullers's story has become a way to articulate something about herself. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers Paperback Apby Jenn Shapland (Author) 188 ratings 4.1 on Goodreads 1,956 ratings Editors' pick Best Biographies & Memoirs See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 12.95 42 Used from 1.85 26 New from 7. And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers's life: she wades through the therapy transcripts she stays at McCullers's childhood home, where she lounges in her bathtub and eats delivery pizza she relives McCullers's days at her beloved Yaddo.

Shapland recognizes herself in the letters' language-but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. Summary: '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. She teaches in the Creative Writing department at the Institute of American Indian Arts and has a PhD in English from UT Austin.

My autobiography of carson mccullers