Virginia Spencer Carr Papers, and undated, bulk 1970-1977 1867-2009

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Virginia Spencer Carr Papers, and undated, bulk 1970-1977 1867-2009

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Scholar and a professor of American literature at Georgia State University. Her first book was . The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers Correspondence, notes, drafts, clippings, and other materials used by Carr in writing (1975), a biography of Southern author Carson McCullers. Includes correspondence between Carr and McCullers' friends and relatives and literary and artistic figures, notes from interviews, McCullers family correspondence, genealogy, and drafts of Carr's doctoral dissertation on McCullers as well as drafts and foundry proofs for . Includes material on Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., February House, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury, Vt. Persons represented in the collection include Elizabeth Ames, W. H. Auden, Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, John Ciardi, David Leo Diamond, Granville Hicks, John Huston, Jordan Massee, Louis Untermeyer, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Leo Lerman, and Eleanor Clarke Warren. The Lonely Hunter The Lonely Hunter

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Carr, Virginia Spencer.

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Virginia Spencer Carr earned her Ph.D. at Florida State University in 1969. She taught courses in the American novel, American writers and poets, literature of the South, and the writing of biography at Georgia State University. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers was her first book, and was awarded the Francis Butler Simkins Prize from the Southern Historical Society and Longwood College for distinguished writing in Southern History. Her second book, Dos Passos: A Life, was selec...