Eudora Welty: A Biography

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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.