![]() ![]() In this intelligent, invigorating book, Shapland links her discovery of McCullers’s work, and her romantic relationships with women, with realisations about her own identity. “If Carson was a lesbian, and if her relationships bore that out, wouldn’t someone have said so before?” She is shocked, thrilled, moved – and full of doubt. It begins when Shapland, a closeted young queer person working in an archive in McCullers’s hometown of Columbus, Georgia, finds a series of love letters written to the mid-century American novelist by a woman. I am not a fiction writer, and this is not a biography.” Instead, this book weaves together criticism, biography and memoir in a blended approach to non-fiction popularised by writers such as Olivia Laing and Maggie Nelson. ![]() “I have read enough biographies to know, in no uncertain terms, that they are built of artifice and lies. ![]() “I am hardly qualified to write a biography of Carson McCullers,” writes Jenn Shapland. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland ![]()
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