My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is a memoir by Jenn Shapland, published April 2, 2020 by Tin House Books. In 2021, the book won the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, and the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award. Along with being longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, it was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and a Stonewall Book Award Honor Book. Reception Reviews Prior to publication, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers was named one of the most anticipated queer books of the year by Lit Hub, Buzzfeed, Forbes, Electric Literature, and Oprah Magazine. Following publication, the book received positive reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, The New York Times Book Review, The A.V. Club, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Times, Full Stop, The New York Review of Books, The Georgia Review, Star Tribune, The Rumpus, Lambda Literary, Autostraddle, Library Journal, The New Yorker, and Open Letters Review. In various reviews, the book was called "revelatory", "stimulating", "gorgeous, brilliant", and "a moving record of love at the margins". The New York Review of Books referred to it as "part fan letter, part detective story, and