![]() Both tended to fall passionately in love with members of both sexes. Her fame, and her husband’s own thwarted ambitions, strained the marriage, as did their mutual sexual ambiguity. Three years later, her first novel was published to great acclaim. In 1937, she married a soldier named Reeves McCullers. She supported herself for a year at school, then gave up music for writing and returned to Georgia. At age 17, she went to New York to study at Juilliard, but on the subway, she lost all the money her parents had saved for her tuition. Meanwhile, she began writing plays for her siblings to perform. McCullers planned to be a concert pianist. McCullers, born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917, was strongly encouraged in her childhood artistic endeavors by her mother, who believed she was an artistic genius. ![]() The novel, about misfits in a Georgia mill town, is an instant success. On J22-year-old Carson McCullers’ first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, is published. ![]()
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