Book World: Channeling hope, a writer survives a harrowing childhood
By Rachel Louise Snyder
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By Rachel Louise Snyder
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers review – identity parade Rachel Cooke © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Leonard McCombe/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image This book, slight as a sapling, has its beginnings in 2016, in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, where its author was then working as an intern. It was Jenn Shapland’s job at the famous repository of writers’ archives to answer scholars’ queries, about half of which usually had to do with David Foster Wallace or Norman Mailer. One February morning, however, she was asked about some letter...