She traces Carson's steps back in bits and pieces, working at Yaddo where Carson once worked, writing and thinking in the same bathtub that Carson once wrote and thought in at the house where she convalesced from debilitating illness. The scholar who requests them never follows up, but Jenn, feeling a deep kinship with their words, plunges into an obsession, literary and otherwise.
What she finds stuns her: a clear record of fierce romantic love between Annemarie, a Swiss writer and known ladykiller, and the married (reportedly straight) Carson. One day, during two years spent working at the Harry Ransom Center, carefully arranging and managing access to the most intimate and personal effects of deceased authors and artists, Jenn Shapland receives a request for materials from a scholar: a batch of letters between legendary Southern author Carson McCullers and Annemarie Clarac-Schwarzenbach, a woman that she's never heard of. Urgent and personal, Jenn Shapland's debut brings rare freedom and wild empathy to the biographical form. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Swirling, lyrical, and propulsive, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is by turns memoir, field notes from an obsession, and highly subjective chronicle of a creative life lived toward love and the process of writing. Looking back over her life from a precocious childhood in Georgia to her painful decline from a series of crippling strokes, McCullers offers poignant and unabashed remembrances of her early writing success, her family attachments, a troubled marriage to a failed writer, and friendships with literary and film luminaries (Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Wright, Isak Dinesen, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe), and the intense relationships of the important women in her life. Dews has faithfully brought her story back to life, complete with never-before-published letters between McCullers and her husband Reeves, and an outline of her most famous novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation-the author of Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Ballad of Sad Cafe-died of a stroke at the age of fifty before finishing this, her last manuscript.
More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first time.
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