About Virginia Spencer Carr Books
Virginia Spencer Carr was honored with the Southern Historical Association's Francis Butler Simkins Prize for her biography of Carson McCullers, The Lonely Hunter, and the Council of Authors and Journalists Nonfiction Prize for her biography of John Dos Passos, Dos Passos: A Life. Both volumes were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Now retired, Carr is the John B. and Elena Diaz Verson Amos Distinguished Professor Emerita of English Letters at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where she served for eight years as chair of the Department of English.
