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The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers

10 best books like The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers (Virginia Spencer Carr): Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World, Byron: Life and Legend, Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot, The Rise of Life on Earth, Robert Frost: A Life, City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara, Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton, The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)
AuthorBreanne Fahs
ISBN1558618481
Too drastic, too crazy, too "out there," too early, too late, too damaged, too much—Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never forgotten. She has become, unwittingly, a figurehead for women's unexpressed rage, and stands at the center of many worlds. She inhabited Andy Warhol's Factory scene,...
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
AuthorClaudia Roth Pierpont
ISBN0679751130
With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through...
Byron: Life and Legend
AuthorFiona MacCarthy
ISBN0571179975
An excellent biography of Byron - and I've read a few by now. To be honest, during Byron's early years I was feeling as if I'd read it all (or most of it) before. But during the later years, especially once he reaches Venice, the book really came into its own. I felt there was more depth, detail and interest...
Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot
AuthorCarole Seymour-Jones
ISBN0385499930
This astonishing portrait of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of poet T.S. Eliot, gives a voice to the woman who, for seventeen years, had shared a unique literary partnership with Eliot but who was scapegoated for the failure of the marriage and all but obliterated from historical record. In so doing, Painted...
The Rise of Life on Earth
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0811212130
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches...
Robert Frost: A Life
AuthorJay Parini
ISBN0805063412
This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Robert Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce...
City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara
AuthorBrad Gooch
ISBN0394571185
Received this book from friend Phyllis years ago and never read it until this month. Gooch's biography of poet and Musuem of Modern Art curator Frank O'Hara is informative and well-researched and documented. Gooch also incorporates many excerpts from O'Hara's poetry to show how the poet's experiences...
Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton
AuthorLinda Gray Sexton
ISBN0316782084
Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come...
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
AuthorDonald Spoto
ISBN0306808056
This is the first complete, critical biography of Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), one of America's finest playwrights and the author of (among many important works) The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, and The Night of the...
Eudora Welty
AuthorSuzanne Marrs
ISBN0151009147
I heard mediocre things about this when it came out so I didn't bother, but I found it on a sale table so picked it up and found out for myself that it is mediocre.

It's useful for facts facts facts, and so it will become yet another one of those bios I flip through the index to find out what I want to find...
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories
AuthorNella Larsen
ISBN0385721005
A light-skinned beauty who spends years passing for white finds herself dangerously drawn to an old friend's Harlem neighborhood. A restless young mulatto tries desperately to find a comfortable place in a world in which she sees herself as a perpetual outsider. A mother's confrontation with tragedy...
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
AuthorAlfred Habegger
ISBN0812966015
Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography,...
Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson
AuthorJudy Oppenheimer
ISBN0449904059
Advice to women, 1933:

Keep young and beautiful
It's your duty to be beautiful
Keep young and beautiful
If you want to be loved, dah-dah-dah-dah

Don't fail to do your stuff
With a little powder and a puff
Keep young and beautiful
If you want to be loved

If...
A Carnivore's Inquiry
AuthorSabina Murray
ISBN0802142001
Twenty-three year old Katherine has just left Italy for New York City, but what has propelled her there is a mystery. She strikes up an affair with an older Russian �migr� novelist met on the subway and moves into his apartment. But her allusions to a frighteningly eccentric mother and tyrannical...
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
AuthorPatricia Highsmith
ISBN0393327728
Best known for her novels (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, A Suspension of Mercy, and others) Highsmith is an all-too-frequently forgotten master of the short story. These stories in this volume examine the dark soul of humanity in a deceptively simple voice that draws you in and won't...
The Color of Night
AuthorMadison Smartt Bell
ISBN0307741885
Mae, a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino, spends her free time wandering the desert with a rifle, or sitting in her trailer obsessively watching replays of an old lover escaping the wreckage of 9/11. What she sees in those images is different from what the rest of us would see. She revels in the pure...
Lithium for Medea
AuthorKate Braverman
ISBN1583224718
Lithium for Medea is a tale of addiction: to drugs, physical love, and dysfunctional family chains. It is also a tale of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Rose grew up with an emotionally crippled, narcissistic mother while her father, a veteran gambler, spent...
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
AuthorAndrew Wilson
ISBN1582344116
The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her "peerlessly disturbing" thrillers and short stories. Yet even as her work has found new popularity in the last few years, the life of this famously elusive writer has remained a mystery.

For...
Dorothy Dandridge
AuthorDonald Bogle
ISBN1567430341
Dorothy Dandridge -- like Marilyn and Liz--was a dream goddess of the fifties. All audiences ever had to do was take one look at her -- in a nightclub, on television, or in the movies -- and they were hooked. She was unforgettable, Hollywood's first full-fledged African American movie star.

This...
Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers
AuthorCarson McCullers
ISBN0299164446
More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first time. 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...
Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love
AuthorYehuda Koren
ISBN0786718617
The failure of the marriage between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been considered from one of two conflicting viewpoints: hers or his. Missing for more than four decades has been a third perspective on the events that brought their marriage to its ill-fated end, the story of another—the other—woman:...
Anne Sexton: A Biography
AuthorDiane Wood Middlebrook
ISBN0679741828
Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to...
The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert And the Making of the Modern Art Market
AuthorLindsay Pollock
ISBN1586483021
In an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery scene, defying all cultural and societal rules. In 1926, Halpert, just twenty-six years old, opened one of the first art galleries in Greenwich Village and...
Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
AuthorAnton Gill
Peggy Guggenheim -- millionairess, legendary lover, sadomasochist, appalling parent, selective miser -- was one of the greatest and most notorious art patrons of the twentieth century.

After her father, Benjamin Guggenheim, went down with the Titanic, the young heiress came into a small...
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