Primary Works

The member of the wedding, a play. NY, 1951. PS3525.A1772 M5

The ballad of the sad cafe; the novels and stories of Carson McCullers. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. PS3525 .A1772

(The ballad of the sad cafe.-Wunderkind.-The jockey.-Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland.-The sojourner.-A domestic dilemma.-A tree, a rock, a cloud.-The heart is a lonely hunter.-Reflections in a golden eye.-The member of the wedding.)

The Square Root of Wonderful. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. (Play)

Clock without hands. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1961. PS3525.A1772 C4

The play, The ballad of the sad cafe. Carson McCullers' novella adapted to the stage by Edward Albee. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1963. PS3551.L25 B3

The mortgaged heart. Edited by Margarita G. Smith. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1971. PS3525.A1772 M6

The heart is a lonely hunter. NY: Modern Library, 1993. PS3525 .A1772 H4

Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers. Dews, Carlos L. (ed. and introd.). Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1999.

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

Abernathy, Jeff. To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2003.

Bloom, Harold. Carson McCullers. NY: Chelsea, 1986.

Bombaci, Nancy. Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture: Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers. NY: Peter Lang, 2006.

Carr, Virginia S. Understanding Carson McCullers. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1990.

Clark, Beverly, and Melvin Friedman. eds. Critical Essays on Carson McCullers. NY: Hall, 1996. PS3525 .A1772 Z594

Fahy, Thomas. Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Gleeson-White, Sarah. Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2003.

James, Judith G. Wunderkind: The Reputation of Carson McCullers, 1940-1990. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1995.

Madden, David. Touching the Web of Southern Novelists. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2006.

McDowell, Margaret B. Carson McCullers. Boston: Twayne, 1980. PS3525.A1772 Z76

Richards, Gary. Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2005.

Savigneau, Joyce, and Joan E. Howard. Carson McCullers: A Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Shapiro, Adrian M., Jackson R. Bryer, and Kathleen Field. eds. Carson McCullers: A Descriptive Listing and Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. NY: Garland, 1980.

Westling, Louise. Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.

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