Champion, Laurie, ed. The Critical Response to Eudora Welty's Fiction. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994, 368 p.

Reprints in one volume the most significant critical essays on Welty's short fiction.

Dazey, Mary Ann. "Phoenix Jackson and the Nice Lady: A Note on Eudora Welly's 'A Worn Path'." American Notes & Queries XVII, No. 6 (February 1979): 92-3.

Examines the thematic significance of a specific episode in which Phoenix Jackson asks "a nice lady" to tie her boot laces.

Keys, Marilynn. "'A Worn Path': The Way of Dispossession." Studies in Short Fiction 16, No. 4 (Fall 1979): 354-56.

Concentrates "on only the major elements of the story: the reason for the journey, the obstacles which the protagonist encounters and overcomes, and the ultimate triumph of love over adversity."

Lewis, Thomas N. "Textual Variants in 'A Worn Path'." Eudora Welty Newsletter XVI, No. 1 (Winter 1992): 11-13.

Provides an analysis of textual variants that were "introduced into 'A Worn Path' between its publication in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1940 and its appearance in A Curtain of Green in November 1941."

Nostrandt, Jeanne R. "Welty's 'A Worn Path'." The Explicator 34, No. 5 (January 1979): 33.

Perceives "traces of an old Norse tale" in "A Worn Path."

Welty, Eudora. "'Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead?'" Critical Inquiry 1, No. 1 (September 1974): 219-21.

Welty responds to readers' most-frequently-asked question.

Westling, Louise. "Apprenticeship," in Women Writers: Eudora Welty, edited by Eva Figes and Adele King, pp. 85-126. Houndmills, England: Macmillan Education Ltd., 1989.

Includes discussion of an event that inspired Welty's "A Worn Path."

Additional coverage of Welty's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 2, 5, 14, 22, 33; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography 1941-1968; Contemporary Authors, Vol. 9-12R; Contemporary Authors Bibliography Series, Vol. 1; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 32; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 2, 102, 143; Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Vol. 12; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, Vol. 87; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian; DISCovering Authors: Most-Studied Authors Module; DISCovering Authors: Novelists Module; Major Twentieth-Century Writers; Short Story Criticism, Vol. 1; and World Literature Criticism.