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100 1  Shapland, Jenn,|d1987-|eauthor. 
245 10 My autobiography of Carson McCullers /|cJenn Shapland. 
250    First US Edition 
264  1 Portland :|bTin House Books,|c[2020] 
300    xv, 266 pages ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266) 
520    "While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry 
       Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters 
       of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie-letters 
       that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their 
       feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters' 
       language-but does not see McCullers as history has 
       portrayed her. And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake 
       a recovery of the full narrative and language of 
       McCullers's life: she wades through the therapy 
       transcripts; she stays at McCullers's childhood home, 
       where she lounges in her bathtub and eats delivery pizza; 
       she relives McCullers's days at her beloved Yaddo. As 
       Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing 
       distance between her and McCullers, she sees the way 
       McCullers's story has become a way to articulate something
       about herself. The results reveal something entirely new 
       not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but 
       about the way we tell queer love stories. In genre-defying
       vignettes, Jenn Shapland interweaves her own story with 
       Carson McCullers's to create a vital new portrait of one 
       of America's most beloved writers, and shows us how the 
       writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves 
       make us who we are"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Shapland, Jenn,|d1987- 
600 10 McCullers, Carson,|d1917-1967. 
650  0 Lesbians|zUnited States|vBiography. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft