question: Which American writer wrote books set in the deep South, Louise Erdrich or Carson McCullers?
answer: Carson McCullers
context: Title: The Round House (novel)
  Passage: The Round House is a novel by American writer Louise Erdrich, first published in 2012.  It is her 14th novel.  Some critics considered it a thematic sequel to Erdrich's 2008 novel "The Plague of Doves" due to its themes of revenge.  Like most of Erdrich's other works it is set on an unnamed Indian reservation in North Dakota.
  Title: Louise Erdrich
  Passage: Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings.  She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a band of the Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwe and Chippewa).
  Title: The Member of the Wedding
  Passage: The Member of the Wedding is a 1946 novel by Southern writer Carson McCullers.  It took McCullers five years to complete, although she interrupted the work for a few months to write the short novel "The Ballad of the Sad Café".
  Title: Bagdad Café
  Passage: Bagdad Café (also known as Out of Rosenheim) is a 1987 German film directed by Percy Adlon.  It is a comedy-drama set in a remote truck-stop café and motel in the Mojave Desert in the US state of California.  Loosely based on Carson McCullers' novella "The Ballad of the Sad Café" (1951), the film centers on two women who have recently separated from their husbands, and the blossoming friendship that ensues.  It runs 95 minutes in the U.S. and 108 minutes in the German version.
  Title: Carson McCullers
  Passage: Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet.  Her first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the U.S. South.  Her other novels have similar themes and most are set in the deep South.
  Title: Deep South Wrestling
  Passage: Deep South Wrestling (DSW) was a professional wrestling promotion based in McDonough, Georgia.  Deep South worked in tandem with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a developmental territory from 2005 until April 18, 2007.  Deep South was owned by Jody Hamilton, former director of the WCW Power Plant.  A previous version of Deep South, which had a working agreement with the American Wrestling Association, was also run by Hamilton from 1986 to October 1988.
  Title: Clock Without Hands (novel)
  Passage: Clock Without Hands is American author Carson McCullers' final novel.  It was published on September 18, 1961 by Houghton Mifflin.
  Title: Dallas John Baker
  Passage: Dallas John Baker (born Dallas John Angguish Baker on 19 February 1968) is an Australian writer and academic noted for poetry, short stories and travel writing whose work deals with themes of alienation, otherness and sexuality.  He is also known as Dallas Angguish, the name he used as a performance poet beginning in the 1980s.  He has been repeatedly compared to Truman Capote and to David Sedaris.  Angguish, who is openly gay, has also written plays and screenplays some of which have been produced.  He is known for a lyrical style that foregrounds feeling and the use of powerful descriptive passages.  Due to his evocative short stories, he has been variously described as Truman Capote's literary heir and as reminiscent of Carson McCullers, the much lauded Southern Gothic writer.  His prose poetry has appeared in the journals Text, Lodestar Quarterly, Retort Magazine and Polari journal.  His short stories have appeared in the book anthologies ""Dumped"", ""Bend, Don't Shatter"",""Sensual Travels"" and others.  His collection of memoir and travel writing ""Anywhere But Here"", released in February 2006, received very strong reviews.  In particular Graeme Aitken of Australian gay magazine DNA wrote:
  Title: Jacklight
  Passage: Jacklight is a 1984 poetry collection by Louise Erdrich.  The collection grew from poems Erdrich wrote for her 1979 Master of Arts thesis at Johns Hopkins University.
  Title: Carson McCullers House
  Passage: Carson McCullers House is a historic home located at South Nyack in Rockland County, New York.  It is a two-story Second Empire style residence constructed in 1880 and modified with subsequent interior and exterior modifications largely in the Colonial Revival spirit about 1910.  It is a frame structure built originally as parsonage, three bays wide and four bays deep.  It features a one-story verandah, a slate-covered mansard roof, and an interesting multi-story tower projection crowned by a bell-cast roof.  It was home to noted author Carson McCullers (1917–1967) from 1945 to 1967.
citations: Louise Erdrich Carson McCullers