Eudora Welty: A BiographyHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 - 652 pages Eudora Welty's works are treasures of American literature. When her first short-story collection was published in 1941, it heralded the arrival of a genuinely original writer who over the decades wrote hugely popular novels, novellas, essays, and a memoir, One Writer's Beginnings, that became a national bestseller. By the end of her life, Welty (who died in 2001) had been given nearly every literary award there was and was all but shrouded in admiration. In this definitive and authoritative account, Suzanne Marrs restores Welty's story to human proportions, tracing Welty's life from her roots in Jackson, Mississippi, to her rise to international stature. Making generous use of Welty's correspondence-particularly with contemporaries and admirers, including Katherine Anne Porter, E. M. Forster, and Elizabeth Bowen-Marrs has provided a fitting and fascinating tribute to one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. |
Contents
Shelter and Beyond 19091931 | 1 |
SelfDiscovery 19311941 | 35 |
Being Apart from What Matters World War II and the Home Front 19411945 | 85 |
Love First and then Separateness 19451951 | 138 |
Finding a Way Out 19511956 | 211 |
Losing Battles 19571966 | 264 |
Defending Against Time 19661973 | 321 |
The Strong Present Tense On and Off the Road 19741980 | 396 |
The Lonesomeness and Hilarity of Survival 19841991 | 487 |
Old Age Hath Yet Her Honor and Her Toil 19912001 | 545 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 572 |
APPENDICES | 575 |
NOTES | 580 |
620 | |
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 634 |
639 | |
Ceaselessly Into the Past SelfPortraits 19801984 | 446 |