"In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone."
American writer associated with Southern Gothic literature whose works examine loneliness and social isolation. She is best known for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding. Her fiction often focused on psychologically complex outsiders in the American South.