Eudora (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ann Waldron
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1909-
- Setting: Jackson, Mississippi; Madison, Wisconsin; New York City; England
- Principal Characters: Eudora Welty, Chestina Welty, Christian Welty, Edward Welty, Walter Welty, Mary Lou Aswell, Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Anne Porter, John Robinson, Diarmuid Russell, Robert Penn Warren
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Authors or writers, New York City, Literature, Midwest, Novelists, England or English people, Mississippi
- Locales: New York, NY, England, Madison, WI, Jackson, MS
This is the first biography of Eudora Welty, a southern writer renowned especially for her short stories, many of which—like “Why I Live at the P.O.”—have been anthologized and won prizes. After William Faulkner, Welty is the finest writer Mississippi has produced. Unlike Faulkner, she has generally been lauded by her fellow Mississippians for presenting a positive picture of the state. Whereas Faulkner presents a gothic South, replete with demons and idiots and warped by racism, Welty—while not ignoring these subjects altogether—portrays a gentler, quirkier Mississippi. As...
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