Book description
The Mortgaged Heart
is an important collection of Carson McCullers"s work, including
stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These
pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable
insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The
collection also contains the the working outline of "The
Mute," which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia. She published her
first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,
at the age of twenty-three. She died in 1967 at the age of fifty.
