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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

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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
Writer
Columbus
Georgia
Lula Carson Smith
Carson McCullers
Years
Amidst
Life
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Columns
Supporting
Solitary
Fragile
Seemed
Nothing
Wreckage

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