Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-fiction Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD I’ve never read a book quite like it.Also available on eBook for £7.99. “Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is indeed part autobiography, part criticism, part memoir, and 100% human, reminding us of how books and writers can take our hands and lead us to uncover the mystery of our hearts. Melissa Febos, author of Abandon Me and Whip Smart
It is a detective story and a dissection of selfhood, a puzzle every piece of which pleased me as it clicked into place.” My Autobiography of Carson McCullers manages to do all of this in earnest and honest and riveting vignettes. My favorite memoirs are those that scrutinize the self as an unreliable source of narrative truth and the one we must nonetheless rely upon. My favorite biographies are full of historical literary gossip and interested in the shadow selves of public persons. “You do not need to be a queer woman, a lover of Carson McCuller's fiction, or interested in the mysterious junctures between our own lives and those of our favorite artists to love this book, but for those of us who are those things, Jenn Shapland's memoir is a particular trove of delights. Captivating and trenchant and moving, Shapland’s genre-mixing debut will stay with me a long time.” It’s a biography that’s also a memoir, a story of obsession and longing. “You don’t have to be a Carson McCullers fan to admire this remarkable book. Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House In this genre-bending work of nonfiction, Shapland brings the full weight of her intellect to bear on one of literature’s most important questions: How do queer readers find the truth―and themselves―between the lines?" " Gorgeous, symphonic, tender, and brilliant, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is a monumental achievement. “In lucid, distilled, honest prose, Jenn Shapland teaches us about McCullers, the desire for recognition, loneliness, the complexities of queer history, the seductions and resistances of the archive, and, all throughout, love.”
Megan O'Grady, The New York Times Book Review
"The kind of state-of-the-form reckoning that makes one wish there were more like it." "An unpretentious, moving record of love at the margins." Some kind words about My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Stonewall Book Awards Nonfiction Honor Book. Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence and the Reading the West Book Prize. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award, the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and the Phi Beta Kappa C hristian Gauss Award. Finalist for the National Book Award and the Southern Book Prize.
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