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Episode: Jarvis on McCullers
Description: The writing of Carson McCullers has perhaps never been as popular or acclaimed as that of contemporaries such as Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams, but nonetheless she remains one of the most remarkable and individual writers to come out of twentieth century America.
She only wrote a few works, in large part because rheumatic fever left her paralysed in her left arm, and she was beset by ill health and alcoholism for many of her fifty years.
Her writing style was enormously sensuous, filled with the heat, sounds and smells of the American south, and the characters who populated...