The Mortgaged Heart

An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of Americas finest writers The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullerss work including stories essays articles poems and her writing on writing. These pieces written mostly before McCullers was nineteen provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of The Mute which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. As new generations of readers continue to discover her work Carson McCullerss celebrated place in American letters survives more surely than ever. Edited by McCullerss sister and with a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates The Mortgaged Heart will be an inspiration to writers young and old.