Even Carson McCullers Got Writer's Block: And, she was friend of Gypsy Rose Lee

When Carson McCullers, author of "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," was working on "The Member of the Wedding" she got a classic case of writer's block.  The harder she tried to mesh plot and character the less her creativity was accessible to her.

Then, as it happens, there she was walking down the street with Gypsy Rose Lee to watch a fire and it dawns on her that 12-year-old misfit Frankie is in love with her brother and his bride.  The book got rolling again.

I bumped up against the tidbit as I was struggling with my own lack of inspiration for what stock I should cover for Motley Fool.  That and a lot more dirt about the celebrities of yesterday are in the new biography of Gypsy Rose Lee "American Rose" by Karen Abbott. 

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Then, as it happens, there she was walking down the street with Gypsy Rose Lee to watch a fire and it dawns on her that 12-year-old misfit Frankie is in love with her brother and his bride.