Virginia Spencer Carr

Biography

Virginia Spencer Carr (1929–2012) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for two of her biographies, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers and Dos Passos: A life. Her other books include Paul Bowles: A Life.

See Work

CRITICISM / Summer 1984

A Scandalous Trial In Fact and Fiction

By Virginia Spencer Carr

Lillian Faderman’s scrupulous mining of the original documents and court transcripts of a scandalous 1810 Edinburgh trial in which two mistresses of a fashionable girls’ boarding school sued a wealthy matron for besmirching their names and...