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Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Lula Carson Smith was born on February 19, 1917. She was the oldest of three children. Carson found herself to be very good at playing the piano at a young age. She shocked her mother at age six by ....

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... teacher, Mary Tucker. She was so devastated by this loss that she put aside her interest in piano permanently. She hoped to develop her new found love of writing. She made plans to leave for New York directly after graduation. She was barely seventeen when she arrived in Manhattan and registered for classes at Columbia University. Repeated attacks of anemia, pleurisy, and other respiratory ailments related to her rheumatic fever interrupted her formal studies and frequently drove her south to recuperate. At this time was when she met Reeves McCullers, a Fort Bennington soldier from Alabama, who was also an aspiring writer. They were marr ...