Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation. On September 29, 1967, at age fifty, she died in Nyack, New York, where she is buried.
Con tan sólo 23 años, Carson McCullers publicó El corazón es un cazador solitario, una de las obras capitales de la narrativa contemporánea. Estas páginas presentan, por primera vez en nuestra lengua, el esbozo inicial de la novela –titulada en un principio «El mudo»– y revelan el...
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