Betts, Doris | Doris Betts with Elizabeth Evans (interview date 1994)
Doris Betts with Elizabeth Evans (interview date 1994)
SOURCE: “Conversations with Doris Betts,” in The South Carolina Review, Vol. 28, Spring, 1996, pp. 4–8.
[In the following interview, which took place in 1994, Betts reflects on her relationship with Diarmuid Russell and describes her creative process.]
[Elizabeth Evans]: I was so happy to hear and read what you said about Anne's [Tyler] St. Maybe.
[Doris Betts]: It's become one of my real favorites. And it's so bizarre that she should have gotten the Pulitzer for a book [Breathing Lessons] that is not the best. I mean several before that were wonderful. And then St. Maybe would have been, I think, perfect.
It [St. Maybe] was a real change for her.
I thought it was brave.
Certainly it has a Christian theme: he who loses his life, etc.
And all the more odd because knowing that she has a Quaker background...
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