Supplemental materials:
- Character list/map from Oprah's Book club
- Discussion questions, Reading Group Guide
- "A Connoisseur of Yearning," a biography of Carson McCullers, New York Review of Books (2020)
- "The Closeting of Carson McCullers," The Paris Review (2020)
- "What Carson McCullers Knew About Cotton Mills and Misery ," column by Nick Norwood for Library of America (2017)
- "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," poem by Fiona McLeod (aka William Sharp) that inspired the title for the McCullers novel
