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But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.

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Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
Film Writer
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Georgia
Lula Carson Smith
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