My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
Brand: Tin House Books
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism



Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.9 x 8.6 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1951142292
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1951142292
Publisher: Tin House Books
Print length: 296 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2021
subtitle: Paperback – January 5, 2021
author: Visit Amazon's Jenn Shapland Page search results Jenn Shapland
review: Editorial Reviews Review “A hard-won inquiry into how we seek out the truth of ourselves and others in ways that often, by necessity, aren’t straightforward, that arrive in our lives in glimmering bits and shards. . . . Shapland’s book is the kind of state-of-the-form reckoning that makes one wish there were more like it.” - The New York Times Book Review “An unpretentious, moving record of love at the margins.” - The New Yorker “Following along with Shapland-as-detective is a delight, and the mystery she sets out to solve is one of those wicked unsolvables: how do we account for the apertures in language, history, and identity?” - The Los Angeles Review of Books “Her stimulating book is part fan letter, part detective story, and part steely corrective.” - The New York Review of Books “This book will change the way you think about the truth. . . . Shapland possesses the perfect storm of talents to push McCullers’s love life, and beautiful writing, into the light of this century during a moment when we need all the queer heroes we can get.” - Autostraddle “This is a gorgeous, brilliant book that is all but guaranteed to resonate with queer folks, word nerds, and readers everywhere.” - Electric Literature “This book uncovers ways women’s queer history has been ignored. It’s a personal, powerful, genre-bending account of literary discovery.” - Book Riot, "Best Books of 2020" “Shapland interweaves candid self-questioning and revealing personal stories with a nuanced portrait of a writer who confessed her loves were 'untouchable' and her feelings 'inarticulable.' A sensitive chronicle of a biographer's search for truth.” - Kirkus Reviews “Sleek, elegant. . . . both a memoir of her own coming-out and a nuanced exploration of her magnificent obsession with the Georgia author known for her sensitive portrayals of misfits.” - Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A fine narrative of how the best writers express the deepest secrets of the heart.” - Library Journal About the Author Jenn Shapland's work won a 2017 Pushcart Prize and fellowships/residencies at Ucross, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Yaddo, the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, and Vermont Studio Center. Her essays have been published in Tin House , THE Magazine, Pastelegram, The Lifted Brow, Electric Literature, NANOfiction, and The Millions. She teaches in the Creative Writing department at the Institute of American Indian Arts and has a PhD in English from UT Austin. She designs and makes clothing for Agnes. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.