Mortgaged Heart（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America’s
finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of
Carson McCullers’s work, including stories, essays, articles,
poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly
before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her
life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also
contains the working outline of “The Mute,” which became her
best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. As new generations
of readers continue to discover her work, Carson McCullers’s
celebrated place in American letters survives more surely than
ever. Edited by McCullers’s sister and with a new introduction by
Joyce Carol Oates, The Mortgaged Heart will be an inspiration to
writers young and old.

　　Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia. She published
her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, at the age of
twenty-three. She died in 1967 at the age of fifty.
　　Margarita G. Smith, a magazine editor and writer, died of heart
failure last Friday at St. Vincent’s Hospital. She was 60 years old
and lived in Manhattan.
　　Miss Smith was the sister of the late novelist Carson McCullers,
and edited a posthumous collection of her work entitled ”The
Mortgaged Heart,” published in 1972. Miss Smith was fiction editor
of Mademoiselle magazine from 1943 to 1960 and introduced to its
readers the works of many leading writers, including Flannery
O’Connor, Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. She was also editor
of ”Forty Best Stories From Mademoiselle,” published in
1960.
　　She later served as contributing fiction editor of Redbook
magazine and was a lecturer in English at Columbia University. For
many years, she was a teacher with the Writers’ Workshop at the New
School for Social Research.
　　Miss Smith was a native of Columbus, Ga., and a graduate of the
University of Miami. One of her short stories was featured by
Mademoiselle and was included in the ”O. Henry Prize Stories of
1943.”