

John Huston directed Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. People filmed The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter in 1968 with Alan Arkin in the lead role. Yaddo in Saratoga, New York, graduated her, an alumna. The novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1951) also depicts loneliness and the pain of unrequited love. People best know Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941). People interpreted the novel as an anti-fascist book. Carson McCullers and many other persons, however, claim that she wrote in the style of southern realism, a genre that Russian realism inspired. Editor of McCullers suggested the title, taken from " The Lonely Hunter," poem of Fiona MacLeod. In Fayetteville, North Carolina, she at 23 years of age wrote The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter in the southern gothic tradition. Reeves found some work at Charlotte, North Carolina, where they began their married life.

She from 1935 to 1937 divided her time, as her studies and health dictated, between Columbus and New York and in September 1937 married Reeves McCullers, an ex-soldier and aspiring writer. Fiction of American writer Carson Smith McCullers explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts of the South her novels include The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) and The Member of the Wedding (1946).
