Some words before / Tennessee Williams --
A note from the author --
2. Apprenticeship in New York City --
3. Marriage and the heart --
4. New York's new literary darling, summer 1940 --
5. Middagh Street, a queer menage --
6. New York City and Yaddo, 1941 --
7. Columbus and Yaddo, fall 1941-winter 1942 --
8. Reconciliation and remarriage : Columbus and Nyack, 1943-45 --
9. Nyack and Paris, 1945-47 --
10. Gloom and elation : Nyack and Broadway, 1948-50 --
11. Fame and disillusionment, 1950-53 --
12. Emergency from the Chrysalis, 1953-55 --
13. The last years : dissolution and regeneration --
A chronology of Carson Smith McCullers --
