![]() ![]() Sensitive to the false narratives biographers sometimes impose, Shapland tries to avoid cliches, in particular the idea that McCullers’ relationships with women were insignificant compared to her “tortured” relationship with Reeves McCullers, whom she married at 19, divorced and remarried. "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" is structured in short segments - some several pages long, some only a sentence - that move back and forth in time in a way that feels conversational. Shapland also writes about Yaddo, the artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York, where McCullers went to write on several occasions and where Shapland learned she’d been accepted on the anniversary of McCullers’ death. ![]() ![]() Some of them shared a communal living arrangement in New York, which Anaïs Nin named “February House” because most of the residents, including McCullers, were born in February. McCullers enjoyed friendships with other artistic people of her era, including Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Paul and Jane Bowles, Gypsy Rose Lee and Truman Capote. ![]()
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