Her father was a watchmaker and jeweler of French Huguenot descent. Her great grandfather on her mother's side was a planter and Confederate soldier. She was named after her maternal grandmother, Lula Carson Waters. McCullers was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 to Lamar Smith, a jeweller, and Marguerite Waters. A stage adaptation of her novel The Member of the Wedding (1946), which captures a young girl's feelings at her brother's wedding, made a successful Broadway run in 1950–51. Her stories have been adapted to stage and film. Critics also describe her writing and eccentric characters as universal in scope.
McCullers's work is often described as Southern Gothic and indicative of her Southern roots. Her other novels have similar themes and most are set in the deep South. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet.
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