Carson McCullers

With a collection of work including five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, more than two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children’s verse, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography, Carson McCullers is considered to be among the most significant American writers of the twentieth century.

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Eleanor Perry

Eleanor Perry went from writing whodunits with her first husband in Cleveland to writing screenplays for her second husband in New York and Hollywood.

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Mary Tucker Magill

Virginia educator and author whose work portrays the generation of Virginians who endured the hardships of defeat following the American Civil War (1861–1865) and looked ahead to the next century by embracing innovative ideas on health and well-being.

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