Eudora Welty: A Biography
Categories: Books, History, Americas

Eudora Welty&apos;s works are treasures of American literature. When her first short-story collection was published in 1941, it heralded the arrival of a genuinely original writer who over the decades wrote hugely popular novels, novellas, essays, and a memoir, One Writer&apos;s Beginnings, that became a national bestseller. By the end of her life, Welty (who died in 2001) had been given nearly every literary award there was and was all but shrouded in admiration. In this definitive and authoritative account, Suzanne Marrs restores Welty&apos;s story to human proportions, tracing Welty&apos;s life from her roots in Jackson, Mississippi, to her rise to international stature. Making generous use of Welty&apos;s correspondence-particularly with contemporaries and admirers, including Katherine Anne Porter, E. M. Forster, and Elizabeth Bowen-Marrs has provided a fitting and fascinating tribute to one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.


Publisher: Mariner Books (February 10, 2015)
Publication date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
File size: 15690 KB
Text to Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Print length: 672 pages