BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE: And Other Stories - Softcover

Six stories including "Wunderkind," "A Domestic Dilemma," and "The Sojourner" accompany The Ballad of the Sad Café, a novella about shattered dreams in a small Southern town. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation. On September 29, 1967, at age fifty, she died in Nyack, New York, where she is buried.