Websites
The Carson McCullers Project
A website devoted to McCullers, including a biography, bibliography, photographs, chronology of her life, and a synopsis of many of her works.
Documenting America - Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
Part of the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress, these photographs were created by a group of U.S. government photographers. The images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the impact of the Great Depression.
Books
Carr, Virginia Spencer. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers. 1975. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1985.
Savigneau, Josyane. Carson McCullers: A Life. Translated by Joan E. Howard. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.
Egerton, John. Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. New York: Knopf, 1994.
Other Resources
Carson McCullers Collection
This collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Center, University of Texas at Austin, includes manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs reflecting the life and literary career of McCullers.
