Product Description: Eavesdrop on one of the most celebrated literary friendships in American letters"An epistolary feast for literary fans [and] a confidence booster for aspiring writers everywhere. A–" —Entertainment Weekly "If friendship is an art, this volume is its masterpiece...read more

Product Description: Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was one of the most acclaimed, popular, and controversial American playwrights of the twentieth century. The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof are all considered classics of modern theatre, and their characters and situations are iconic representations of the postwar South...read more

An authoritative account of the esteemed American writer's life and achievements traces her origins in Jackson, Mississippi, her relationships with such contemporaries as Katherine Anne Porter and E. M. Forster, and her receipt of numerous literary awards. Reprint.

An authoritative account of the esteemed American writer's life and achievements traces her origins in Jackson, Mississippi, her relationships with such contemporaries as Katherine Anne Porter and E. M. Forster, and her receipt of numerous literary awards.

In ONE WRITER'S IMAGINATION, Suzanne Marrs draws upon nearly twenty years of conversations, interviews, and friendship with Eudora Welty to discuss the intersections between biography and art in the Pulitzer Prize winner's work. Through an engaging chronological and comprehensive reading of the Welty canon, Marrs describes the ways Welty's creative process transformed and transfigured fact to serve the purposes of fiction. She points to the spark that lit Welty's imagination--an imagination that thrived on polarities in her personal life and in society at large. Marrs offers new evidence of the role Welty's mother, circle of friends, and community played in her development as a writer and analyzes the manner in which her most heartfelt relationships--including her romance with John Robinson--informs her work. She charts the profound and often subtle ways Welty's fiction responded to the crucial historical episodes of her time and the writer's personal reactions to the issues of her day. In doing so, Marrs proves Welty to be a much more political artist than has been conventionally thought. Marrs's relationship to Eudora Welty as a friend, scholar, and archivist--with access to private papers and restricted correspondence--makes her a unique authority on Welty's forty-year career. The eclectic approach of her study speaks to the exhilarating power of imagination Welty so thoroughly enjoyed in the act of writing. Southern Literary Studies; Fred Hobson, Editor

Product Description: This collection of complementary and interrelated essays by ten well-known Welty critics brings welcome clarification to the controversial subject of Eudora Welty and the political, a topic once presumed to be closed tight. As the essays prove, Welty has been inaccurately assessed by critics from Diana Trilling in the Nation (1943) to Claudia Roth Pierpont in the New Yorker (1998) as a writer who avoids political, historical, or cultural engagement in her fiction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This valuable & extensive guide is an annotated listing of all the materials in the Eudora Welty collection of the Mississippi Dept. of Archives & History. Almost all the materials in the collected were donated by Welty to her native state, including manuscripts, correspondence, & documentary photos...read more