One Writer’s Beginnings (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: Jackson, Mississippi; Ohio; West Virginia; and Wisconsin
- Principal Characters: Eudora Welty, Chestina Andrews Welty, Christian 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
Eudora Welty once said in an interview that a writer’s creative work should be read instead of an account of his or her life, adding that she did not think anyone would be interested in her own private life. She changed her mind, however, when Harvard University asked her to deliver the William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization on the subject of what made her become a writer. Although never before having written about herself as herself, Welty became interested in the idea and began to draw on memory and to develop a structure...
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