Eudora Welty: A Biography

Eudora Welty: A Biography by Marrs, Suzanne. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780156030632.

Eudora Weltys 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 Writers 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 Weltys story to human proportions, tracing Weltys life from her roots in Jackson, Mississippi, to her rise to international stature. Making generous use of Weltys 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.