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“... His father, whom he seemed to despise, was a dentist. He studied briefly at the University of Virginia. He began as a poet and composer, coming under the influence of both Gertrude Stein and Aaron Copland. In 1931, with Copland, he visited Morocco for the first time. He wrote a great number of scores for films and plays as well as classical ...”

“... and nuanced; as original and haunting as any work by Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter or Virginia Woolf. According to her biographer, Virginia SpencerCarr, McCullers wrote seven drafts of The Member of the Wedding, yet there is nothing artificial or over-polished about its ...”

“... the less they can write about her with any compassion. Even her superhumanly gentle biographer, Virginia SpencerCarr, occasionally produces sentences like: ‘Many loved Carson immensely, yet to a number of acquaintances, she seemed a bitch.’ Even on the page, she is too much: it’s not difficult to imagine one ...”