My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Shapland, Jenn
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Shapland, Jenn

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered--an icon and idol--alongside your own? Jenn Shapland's...
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Shapland, Jenn

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

$53.82
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Shapland, Jenn

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

$53.82
Author: Jenn Shapland
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered--an icon and idol--alongside your own? Jenn Shapland's celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America's most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memory, obsession, and love.

Shapland is a graduate student when she first uncovers letters written to Carson McCullers by a woman named Annemarie. Though Shapland recognizes herself in the letters, which are intimate and unabashed in their feelings, she does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. Her curiosity gives way to fixation, not just with this newly discovered side of McCullers's life, but with how we tell queer love stories. Why, Shapland asks, are the stories of women paved over by others' narratives? What happens when constant revision is required of queer women trying to navigate and self-actualize in straight spaces? And what might the tracing of McCullers's life--her history, her secrets, her legacy--reveal to Shapland about herself?

In smart, illuminating prose, Shapland interweaves her own story with McCullers's to create a vital new portrait of one of our nation's greatest literary treasures, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are.



Author: Jenn Shapland
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 02/04/2020
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781947793286


Award: Stonewall Book Award - Honor Book
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2019
Booklist 01/01/2020 pg. 25
Library Journal 01/01/2020 pg. 75
Publishers Weekly 03/23/2020

About the Author
Shapland, Jenn: - Jenn Shapland's work won a 2017 Pushcart Prize and fellowships/residencies at Ucross, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Yaddo, the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, and Vermont Studio Center. Her essays have been published in Tin House, THE Magazine, Pastelegram, The Lifted Brow, Electric Literature, NANOfiction, and The Millions. She teaches in the Creative Writing department at the Institute of American Indian Arts and has a PhD in English from UT Austin. She designs and makes clothing for Agnes. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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