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"It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him."

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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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