EAN: 9780141182827

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Carson McCullers (Author) Carson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s including The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult life including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s she died at the age of 50. The Member of the Wedding was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967 with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968 starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Caf¿i> (1991). Ali Smith (Introducer) Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of Free Love and Other Stories Like Other Stories and Other Stories Hotel World The Whole Story and Other Stories The Accidental Girl Meets Boy The First Person and Other Stories There but for the Artful How to be both and Public library and other stories. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge and her next novel Autumn is forthcoming in the second half of 2016.

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