Italy Reads - Resources for Teachers: Italy Reads 2011

This comprehensive website offers information about Carson McCullers, her life and works. Carson McCullers Center “The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians is dedicated to preserving the legacy of Carson McCullers.” The website offers bio-bibliographical information about the writer and links to relevant resources.

This section of the NEA Big Read website is dedicated to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and gives access to a teacher’s guide and a reader’s guide.

Wikipedia entry for Carson McCullers, with biographical information and the list of her works.

Wikipedia entry for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

Book review by Michiko Kakutani of the McCullers’ biography written by Josyane Savigneau in 2001.

Article by Mel Gussow about the publication of Carson McCullers’s autobiography.

In this Washington Post article, book critic Jonathan Yardley reconsiders Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

Times Topics page dedicated to Carson McCullers, with articles and book reviews.

Online reading guide to The Heart Is a lonely Hunter prepared by publisher Houghton Mifflin.

This site will help students with an understanding of themes and characters. It includes chapter summaries, character analysis, and study questions. (The website contains many advertisements.)

Study guide containing information on the novel and its author. It includes characters description, chapter summaries, and activities. (The website contains many advertisements.)

Reading guide of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter including discussion questions, character analysis and information on Carson McCullers.

Brief biography of Carson McCullers, accompanied by a list of suggested readings.

McCullers’s biography available on the NEA Big Read website.

This web page offers information on the life and times of Carson McCullers.

Chronology of the life of Carson McCullers.

Bio-bibliographical information about Carson McCullers.

Timeline of Carson McCullers’s life.

Brief biographical sketch from the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame web site.

Life and works of American novelist Carson McCullers.

Timeline of McCullers as a writer.

Brief biographical sketch on Carson McCullers available from the Turner Classic Movies website.

Brief description of Columbus, McCullers’s hometown, with some biographical sketches of the novelist.

The following links are handouts and lesson plans for a suggested teaching schedule for the study of Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter:

These questions can be used for class discussions.

Discussion questions that can be used both for book groups.

Big Read radio show that discusses The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.

Brief synopsis, trailer and clips of the movie The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter based on McCullers’s novel.

Movie record for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter available from the Internet Movie Database.

Complete bibliography of works by McCullers.

List of critical resources about Carson McCullers.

Article and review of the film version of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter available from the Turner Classic Movies website.

Blog post dedicated to Carson McCullers in the Reader’s Almanac: The Official Blog of the Library of America.