A review by econnuck
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland

5.0

I’m not normally a big fan of biographies, but this was wonderful. Telling her own story alongside Carson’s, Shapland allows her reader to have the same experience as her relationship with Carson through her work. When reading, it is easy to find parallels between one’s own life, Carson’s, and Shapland’s. Her story of discovery, queerness, and disability resonates strongly. Not only is this the story of a woman, it’s a history and snapshot and meditation on a community that, as Shapland discusses extensively, is normally marginalized if not completely written out of the narrative.