"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” the first novel written by Author Carson McCullers, became an immediate critical and commercial victory. The Novel is a tale of mankind fighting against isolation, and search for restoration. The story is set in the deep south, in a period succeeding the great depression. People were beginning to recover from years of harrowing suffering; the clouds were starting to diminish, but they had yet to sense a bit of sunshine on their faces. The story circles five main characters in despair- like the spokes on an old wagon wheel, with a struggling small town at its hub. Each character different from the next, all facing brutal realities of an unkind life. The idea is that these five characters are all protagonists
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She attended public schools and graduated from Columbus High School at the age of 16. An unremarkable student, she preferred the most solitary study of the piano. Encouraged by her mother, who was convinced that her daughter was destined for greatness, McCullers began formal piano study at age ten. She was forced to give up her dream of a career as a concert pianist after rheumatic fever left her without the stamina for the rigors of practice. While recuperating from this illness, she began to read voraciously and consider writing as a vocation. In 1934, at age 17, her moniker became the familiar name we know her as today, and eternally. At that time, she sailed from Savannah, Georgia to New York City, ostensibly to study piano at the Juilliard School of Music. In Actuality, she came to "The Big Apple" to secretly pursue her ambition to write. Working various jobs to support herself, she studied creative writing at New York’s Columbia University and at Washington Square College of New York University. Back in Columbus in the fall of 1936 to recover from a respiratory infection, McCullers was bedridden several months, during which time she began work on her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Her first short story, "Wunderkind," was published in the December 1936 issue of Story Magazine, edited by Whit Burnett, her former teacher at
She attended public schools and graduated from Columbus High School at the age of 16. An unremarkable student, she preferred the most solitary study of the piano. Encouraged by her mother, who was convinced that her daughter was destined for greatness, McCullers began formal piano study at age ten. She was forced to give up her dream of a career as a concert pianist after rheumatic fever left her without the stamina for the rigors of practice. While recuperating from this illness, she began to read voraciously and consider writing as a vocation. In 1934, at age 17, her moniker became the familiar name we know her as today, and eternally. At that time, she sailed from Savannah, Georgia to New York City, ostensibly to study piano at the Juilliard School of Music. In Actuality, she came to "The Big Apple" to secretly pursue her ambition to write. Working various jobs to support herself, she studied creative writing at New York’s Columbia University and at Washington Square College of New York University. Back in Columbus in the fall of 1936 to recover from a respiratory infection, McCullers was bedridden several months, during which time she began work on her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Her first short story, "Wunderkind," was published in the December 1936 issue of Story Magazine, edited by Whit Burnett, her former teacher at