![]() ![]() ![]() “I had received letters like these,” she writes in the book. ![]() Curious, Shapland read them and immediately felt a surge of recognition. One day at the library, a scholar inquired about letters between Swiss writer and photographer Annemarie Clarac-Schwarzenbach and McCullers. Santa Fe, “a small, tucked-away place,” seemed perfect for them.īut the inspiration for My Autobiography of Carson McCullers began in Austin, where, as part of her graduate program, she worked as an intern at the Harry Ransom Library, which holds a fantastic archive of materials on writers such as Norman Mailer, British poet Edith Sitwell, David Foster Wallace-and McCullers. Austin, Shapland says, had become too crowded and urban-not a place in which to grow. Shapland talked to Kirkus by phone from Santa Fe, New Mexico, the place she and her partner, Chelsea Weathers, chose to make their home after a long road trip through New Mexico and into northern Utah from Austin, Texas, where Shapland had been a graduate student in English at the University of Texas. 4), is a sensitive recounting of her discovery of novelist Carson McCullers and, in a very real sense, of her own identity as a lesbian and a writer. A hybrid of memoir and biography, Jenn Shapland’s insightful debut book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House, Feb. ![]()
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