One Writer’s Beginnings (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth to the early twentieth century
- Setting: Mississippi, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin
- Principal Characters: Eudora Welty, Christian Welty, Chestina Andrews Welty
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Language or languages, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Memory, Adolescence, South or Southerners, Authors or writers, Literature, Writing, 1910’s, 1920’s, Creative process, Small-town life, Youth, Nostalgia
- Locales: Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Jackson, MS
Form and Content
Against all odds and expectations, Eudora Welty’s modest memoir about her childhood in Jackson, Mississippi, stayed on The New York Times best-seller list for almost a year after it was published. It is difficult to explain the appeal of this lyrical evocation of a sheltered and uneventful life in the small-town backwater of Mississippi. Although the title suggests that the book will offer some secrets of the wellsprings of the writer’s art, one does not find much of that here. With the exception of a few paragraphs near the end of this...
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Eudora Welty (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Eudora Welty (Short Fiction)Eudora Welty (Long Fiction)Eudora Welty (Identities and Issues)
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