Carson McCullers Poem

Collection

Identifier: SMC 168

Scope and Contents

Written on the back of the frame of this six-stanza poem were the following notes: “Not to be published”. Unpublished Poem by Carson McCullers. Correction on line #14 “to Horizon” in E.P. B’s handwriting, dictated by Carson.”

Dates

Creation: c. 1950s-1964

Creator

McCullers, Carson Smith, 1917-1967 (Person)

Biographical / Historical

This poem was written by Carson McCullers for her friends, Jack and Edith Begner. Jack was a physician and Edith was a published novelist. Both were friends of Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams, as well as many other literary and artistic people, both in New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. The donor remembers “many a Sunday morning in Provincetown finding Norman Mailer sitting at the kitchen table waiting for Jack to patch him up after his legendary Saturday night brawls in the bars of Provincetown.”

Full Extent

1 Folder

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

Gift of the Begner family

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