McCullers suffered throughout her life from several illnesses and from alcoholism. At the age of 15, she contracted rheumatic fever, which resulted in rheumatic heart disease.[22] As a result of the heart damage sustained, McCullers suffered from strokes that began in her youth.[23] She lived the last twenty years of her life in Nyack, New York, where she died on September 29, 1967, at the age of 50, after a brain hemorrhage. [24] She is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.[25]
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