Carson McCullers
1917 – 1967
“I’d rather be a writer than a pinhead in the circus. Their work is harder and has fewer rewards.”
Acclaimed novelist Carson McCullers was also the author of plays, essays, short stories, and poems. Four of her novels were made into films seen around the world. The play The Member of the Wedding, which she adapted from her novel, became a major Broadway success and won the New York Drama Critics’ Award in 1950 for Best Play of the Season. Born in Columbus, McCullers was a prolific writer who worked primarily in New York. While in high school she was seriously ill with rheumatic fever, a disease that may have contributed to her life-long physical frailty.
Carson McCullers studied to be a concert pianist before deciding to become a writer. 
Year inducted: 1994
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