Carr, Virginia Spencer

The lonely hunter : a biography of Carson McCullers by Virginia Spencer Carr ( Book )
20 editions published between 1975 and 2007 in English and held by 2,266 libraries worldwide
[This book is the] biography of Carson McCullers..... [She] was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented, vulnerable but exploitative, [she] led a life that had all the elements - and more - of a tragic novel. -Back cover.

Dos Passos : a life by Virginia Spencer Carr ( Book )
8 editions published between 1984 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,116 libraries worldwide
He rose from a childhood as the illegitimate son of a financial titan to become the man Sartre called "the greatest writer of our time." A progressive writer who turned his passions into the groundbreaking U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos later embraced conservative causes. At the height of his career he was considered a peer of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, yet he died in obscurity in 1970. Award-winning biographer Virginia Spencer Carr examines the contradictions of Dos Passos's life with an in-depth study of the man. Using the writer's letters and journals, and with assistance from the Dos Passos family, Carr reconstructs an epic life, one of literary acclaim and bitter obscurity, restless wandering and happy marriage, friendship with Edmund Wilson and feuds with Hemingway. First published to acclaim in 1984, Dos Passos remains the definitive personal portrait of the author.

Understanding Carson McCullers by Virginia Spencer Carr ( Book )
13 editions published between 1989 and 2005 in English and held by 770 libraries worldwide
"Updated with a discussion of recent scholarship, Understanding Carson McCullers provides a balanced introductory study of the Georgia-born novelist's major fiction and the reasons for her extraordinary and lasting acclaim. Carson McCullers was deemed the "find of the decade" when she appeared on the literary scene at the age of twenty-three and is best remembered for her celebrated novels The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding. Through Virginia Spencer Carr's insightful discussion and analysis of these and lesser-known works, McCullers is shown here as more than a southern writer, more than a lesbian novelist. McCullers emerges as a complex and multifaceted artist not yet fully comprehended and deserving of more contemplative study."--BOOK JACKET.

Paul Bowles : a life by Virginia Spencer Carr ( Book )
11 editions published between 2004 and 2009 in English and held by 425 libraries worldwide
"Paul Bowles - novelist, composer, expatriate, rebel, and bisexual - is one of the most compelling and mythologized figures in twentieth-century American culture. Born in 1910, Bowles grew up in Jamaica, New York, a precocious child who could read by the age of three and was writing stories within the year. At eighteen, he embarked on an artistic journey that led him all over the world. Remarkably gifted, Bowles entered the vibrant art and literary world of the late 1920s and early '30s as a poet and composer. He studied music with composer Aaron Copland and was a friend of Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Ned Rorem, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Stephen Spender, and Christopher Isherwood (who named his character Sally Bowles after him.) Over the course of his career he composed scores for films and innumerable plays, including many works by Tennessee Williams and Orson Welles. It wasn't until after he married Jane Auer that he began writing fiction: The Delicate Prey, The Spider's House, Let It Come Down, and The Sheltering Sky, which he wrote after moving to Tangier in 1947, and which was immediately hailed as a classic." "It is Bowles's flamboyant life that most fascinates people - his friendships, his appetites, his controversial marriage, his leftist politics, his voluntary exile to Morocco, and his stature as a countercultural and gay icon. Through ten years of research, thirteen trips to Bowles's home in Tangier, extensive interviews with some two hundred of Bowles's acquaintances, and her own intimate relationship with Bowles, who died in 1999, Virginia Spencer Carr has gathered a wealth of information about Bowles."--BOOK JACKET.

Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter ( Book )
3 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 354 libraries worldwide
This casebook on "Flowering Judas" addresses Porter's ambivalence surrounding her roles as woman and artist and also attests to the profound influence of Mexico upon her work.

It's good weather for fudge : conversing with Carson McCullers by Sue Brannan Walker ( Book )
3 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 110 libraries worldwide

Paul Bowles, 1910-1999 : catalog of an exhibition August 22, 2000-December 20, 2000 : Special Collections, Hugh M. Morris Library by University of Delaware ( Book )
3 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 88 libraries worldwide

The lonely hunter by Virginia Spencer Carr ( Book )
6 editions published between 1975 and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 15 libraries worldwide

An introduction to The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers by Dan Stone ( Recording )
1 edition published in 2007 in Undetermined and held by 12 libraries worldwide

Carson McCullers and the search for meaning by Virginia Spencer Carr ( Book )
3 editions published in 1969 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide