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"What did he understand? Nothing. Where was he headed? Nowhere. What did he want? To know. What? A meaning. Why? A riddle."

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About Carson McCullers

American writer associated with Southern Gothic literature whose works examine loneliness and social isolation. She is best known for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding. Her fiction often focused on psychologically complex outsiders in the American South.

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