卡森·麦卡勒斯(Carson McCullers,1917—1967)是20世纪四五十年代美国最杰出的作家,也是推动美国南方文学复兴的主力作家。她小说中描写的人常常性情古怪,与社会格格不入,但却在复杂多变、充满暴力的世界中寻求爱并希望被人接受。人们常把她与田纳西·威廉斯、尤多拉·威尔蒂和弗兰纳里·奥康纳相提并论,称她是“描写20世纪南方哥特风格的当之无愧的典范”。她在20多岁时,就已 Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the most prominent American writer in the 1940s and 1950s and the leading writer in promoting the revival of American southern literature. People depicted in her novels are often eccentric and socially alien, but seek love and hope for acceptance in a complex and violent world. She is often compared to Tennessee Williams, Yudra Welti and Flannery O’Connor, calling her “a well-deserved example of a southern Gothic style of the twentieth century.” She was in her 20s