The Mortgaged Heart

“Essential reading for any serious beginning writer . . . illuminating.” — San Francisco Chronicle Carson McCullers is renowned for her Southern Gothic fiction and for such modern classics as The Member of the Wedding . This collection includes an assortment of her earliest work, written mostly before she was nineteen.   Included are stories, essays, articles, poems, and writing about writing—including the working outline of “The Mute,” which would become her bestselling