Born in 1917, Carson McCullers transformed American prose through psychological stillness, restraint, and interior focus. Her fiction showed that silence, subtext, and muted longing could carry immense narrative weight, expanding English’s emotional vocabulary and shaping modern introspective storytelling that values understatement over spectacle and inner life over overt dramatic action.
Birth of Carson McCullers (1917–1967) – The Writer Who Turned Silence into Language
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