At one point, frustrated by the pervasive erasure, Shapland asks, “If indeed there hardly is a lesbian history, do I exist?” Through the process of correcting that history, Shapland asserts not just the facts, but also herself. Her first book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and the Southern Book Prize, and won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award, the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award. In this searching, thoughtful work, Shapland shares the letters as a corrective to the historical record of McCullers’ sexuality-almost always painted over by her biographers-and reflects on her own efforts to understand lesbian identity and its absence in literature. Jenn Shapland is a writer living in New Mexico. In 2021, the book won the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, 1 the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, 2 and the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award.
Soon after, Shapland changed her own life: within a year of the discovery she was more openly calling herself a lesbian, and so all their lives became intertwined. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is a memoir by Jenn Shapland, published Apby Tin House Books. When Jenn Shapland was an intern at a University of Texas at Austin archive, she uncovered love letters written between Carson McCullers, the late author beloved for her novels about outcasts, and a woman named Annemarie, with whom McCullers had an affair. While working in an archive as a graduate student Shapland discovered love letters from Swiss.
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