Shapland made a beeline there and devoured every jotting. The transcripts surfaced in 2014 and wound up at Columbus State University. Mary Mercer, who preserved her records with the caveat that they not be released until after her death. For psychological therapy, McCullers had consulted with Dr. Shapland’s enthrallment came at a fortuitous time. Above all, McCullers wrote with marked sensitivity, humanity and originality. She suffered several strokes she drank too much. Auden and Paul Bowles in the fabled “February House” commune in New York. She went on to write seven other books, including “Reflections in a Golden Eye” (dedicated to Clarac-Schwarzenbach), “The Member of the Wedding,” and the novella “The Ballad of the Sad Café.” She made the bohemian rounds, retreating to Yaddo, hanging out with Tennessee Williams and shacking up with luminaries such as W.H. Her debut novel, “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” published when she was 23, was a literary sensation. She married and divorced the same man twice, and friends characterized her stints with Reeves McCullers as “tortured.”īorn in Columbus, Lula Carson Smith was a frail, wide-eyed waif who looks poignant and pensive in just about every extant photograph. For decades, the sexual orientation of McCullers, who died in 1967, has been a question mark, with scant evidence to prove anything definitively, one way or the other.
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