My Autobiography of Carson McCullers - Shapland, Jenn
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'Gorgeous, symphonic, tender and brilliant' Carmen Maria Machado 'Lucid, distilled and honest' Maggie Nelson 'Remarkable . . . A biography that's also a memoir, a story of obsession and longing' R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries 'A fascinating and intimate examination of the work of archives, research and historic preservation as well as the arc of identity and social construction . . . [an] idiosyncratic and entirely winning book' Observer 'The kind of state-of-the-form reckoning that makes one wish there were more like it' New York Times Book Review

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'Gorgeous, symphonic, tender and brilliant' Carmen Maria Machado 'Lucid, distilled and honest' Maggie Nelson 'Remarkable . . . A biography that's also a memoir, a story of obsession and longing' R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries 'A fascinating and intimate examination of the work of archives, research and historic preservation as well as the arc of identity and social construction . . . [an] idiosyncratic and entirely winning book' Observer 'The kind of state-of-the-form reckoning that makes one wish there were more like it' New York Times Book Review
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Autorenporträt
Jenn Shapland is a writer and archivist living in New Mexico. Her first book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Lambda Literary award. Her essays have won a Pushcart Prize, a Rabkin Foundation Award for art journalism, and a Howard Foundation Fellowship. She has a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently writing a collection of essays called Thin Skin.
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Weaves together biography and memoir . . . Shards of the author's own life glitter amid the story of McCullers's triumphs and struggles . . . A lively cast of walk-on characters includes Tennessee Williams, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Sitwell and Robert Lowell . . . But it is Shapland's identification with her subject that energises the book . . . Only an accomplished writer could marshal this tricky material in order to enmesh two stories. The reader sees McCullers afresh in these pages . . . The politics of female queerness are central to this book, and Shapland handles the subject adroidy. At the same time, this volume, which I admire and recommend without reservation, speaks clearly and universally of the human heart, and specifically of the human heart in conflict with itself Sara Wheeler Literary Review