Carson McCullers: A Life Led by Mary V. Dearborn
Friday, October 18 from 10:30 – 11:30 AM

Live, In-Person & Live on Zoom:
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While McCullers’s literary stature continues to endure, her private life has remained enigmatic and largely unexamined. Now, with unprecedented access to the cache of materials that has surfaced in the past decade, Mary Dearborn gives us the first full picture of this brilliant, complex artist who was decades ahead of her time, a writer who understood – and captured – the heart and longing of the outcast.

Our host, Mary Dearborn, holds a doctorate in English and comparative literature from Columbia University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She is the author of seven books—among them, Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim and Ernest Hemingway. Dearborn has been a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

Oliver Wolcott Library
160 South Street
Litchfield, CT 06759
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