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Reviews forĀ Carson McCullers: A Life
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A well-researched, sensitive literary biography.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A penetrating portrait....This skillful biography satisfies.
Mary V. Dearborn is the author of seven books, the most recent a biography of Ernest Hemingway. She received a B.A. in English and Classics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She was most recently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in Buckland, Massachusetts. Her Carson McCullers: A Life was published by Knopf on February 27, 2024.