As per our current Database, Carson McCullers has been died on Sep 29, 1967 (age 50).
When Carson McCullers die, Carson McCullers was 50 years old.
| Popular As | Carson McCullers |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Age | 50 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | February 19, 1917 (Columbus, GA) |
| Birthday | February 19 |
| Town/City | Columbus, GA |
| Nationality | GA |
Carson McCullers’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Carson McCullers was born in the Year of the Snake. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Snake are seductive, gregarious, introverted, generous, charming, good with money, analytical, insecure, jealous, slightly dangerous, smart, they rely on gut feelings, are hard-working and intelligent. Compatible with Rooster or Ox.
An acclaimed twentieth-century American author in the Southern Gothic genre, she is best known for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) and The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her other works include The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) and Clock Without Hands (1961).
She left her native Georgia at age seventeen with plans to study piano at the Juilliard School in New York City. However, a bout of rheumatic fever forced her return to the South and re-focused her attention from music to writing.
Reflecting her own tumultuous life, her novels frequently depict characters' lonely inner lives.
She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. She had a stormy relationship with her husband, Reeves McCullers; they divorced after he was found forging some of her royalty checks. They remarried in 1945, but their union came to a tragic end (Reeves McCullers killed himself in 1953).
She was inspired by Playwright Tennessee Williams to write her popular work, The Member of the Wedding. Both Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote belonged to McCullers's inner circle of friends.
