(1917–67)
a US writer from the state of Georgia , where most of her novels and short stories were set. She said she wrote about ‘spiritual isolation’. The novels included The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940), Reflection in a Golden Eye (1941), and The Member of the Wedding (1946), which she wrote again as a play in 1950. Her short stories were collected in The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951).