Virginia Spencer Carr

Virginia Spencer Carr (July 21, 1929 – April 10, 2012) was an award-winning biographer of Carson McCullers, John Dos Passos and Paul Bowles.

Carr was also a college professor for more than 25 years at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia, and Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Read more about Virginia Spencer Carr:  Relationships With Those She Wrote About, Family and Home, Awards, Honors, and Distinctions, Career, Death

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