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Works by Carson McCullers

Carson's Bookshelf: 'The Mortgaged Heart'
The Mortgaged Heart (1971)
By Carson McCullers

Edited by her sister Margarita G. Smith, this first collection of Carson's short fiction to be published after her death included critical comments by Sylvia Chatfield Bates, one of Carson's mentors. Of the ten pieces included in the collection, only "Sucker" and "Wunderkind" had been published during the author's lifetime.