Bloom, Harold, ed., Carson McCullers, Modern Critical Views Series, Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.

Bloom, respected Yale University professor and literary
critic, provides the introduction to this collection
of twelve academic articles dealing with McCullers's
work. Also included in the volume is a chronology of
the writer's life and an extensive bibliography.

Carr, Virginia Spencer, The Lonely Hunter, Doubleday, 1975.

Carr has written an especially detailed biography of
McCullers, beginning with her childhood days in
Georgia to her death at age .fty in New York. The
book also contains numerous photographs, a preface
by Tennessee Williams, and a chronology of
McCullers's life.

Entzminger, Betina, The Belle Gone Bad: White Southern Women Writers and the Dark Seductress, Louisiana State University Press, 2002.

Entzminger looks at images of southern womanhood
in the .ction of southern white writers from before the
Civil War through the present. She argues that interpreting
these female characters...