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 or a concert career. Encouraged by her mother, who was convinced that her daughter was destined for greatness, McCullers began formal piano study at age ten.
An unremarkable student, she preferred the more solitary study of the piano. Lula Carson, as she was called until age fourteen, attended public schools and graduated from Columbus High School at sixteen. Early Life and Educationīorn Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, McCullers was the daughter of Lamar Smith, a jewelry store owner, and Vera Marguerite Waters. At least four of her works have been made into films. She is best known for her novels The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Member of the Wedding, all published between 19. With a collection of work including five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, more than two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children’s verse, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography, Carson McCullers is considered to be among the most significant American writers of the twentieth century.
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