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Eudora Welty
(Writer)
[April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001] |
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Essential Welty CD: Why I Live at the P.O., A Memory, Powerhouse and Petrified Man (2006)
In 1956, Caedmon had the great fortune to record
Eudora Welty reading some of her finest stories. In her sweetly vibrant
Mississippi drawl, Ms. Welty deftly draws the listener in to the
uproariously multilayered "Why I Live at the P.O.," the spontaneous
"Powerhouse" and the insightful voice of women's truths in "Petrified
Man." Ms. Welty's reading brings immediacy and resonance to these
wonderful tales.
Eudora Welty Reads (1998)
Eudora Welty, one of America's great storytellers,
relates, in her sweetly vibrant Mississippi drawl, five of her finest
stories. from the uproariously irreverent Why I Live at the P.O.
and the quieter, richly perceptive A Memory and A Worn Path
to spontaneous Powerhouse and the insightful voice of women's
truth's in Petrified Man, Welty opens up her stories and invites
the listener in. Audio cassette.
One Writer's Beginnings (1983)
Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson,
Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her
autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed
to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing. Homely and
commonplace sights, sounds, and objects resonate with the emotions of
recollection: the striking clocks, the Victrola, her orphaned father's
coverless little book saved since boyhood, the tall mountains of the West
Virginia back country that become a metaphor for her mother's sturdy
independence, Eudora's earliest box camera that suspended a moment forever
and taught her that every feeling awaits a gesture. She has recreated this
vanished world with the same subtlety and insight that mark her fiction.
Even if Eudora Welty were not a major writer, her description of growing
up in the South--of the interplay between black and white, between town
and countryside, between dedicated schoolteachers and the public they
taught--would he notable. That she is a splendid writer of fiction gives
her own experience a family likeness to others in the generation of young
Southerners that produced a literary renaissance. Until publication of
this book, she had discouraged biographical investigations. It undoubtedly
was not easy for this shy and reticent lady to undertake her own literary
biography, to relive her own memories (painful as well as pleasant), to go
through letters and photographs of her parents and grandparents. But we
are in her debt, for the distillation of experience she offers us is a
rare pleasure for her admirers, a treat to everyone who loves good writing
and anyone who is interested in the seeds of creativity.
The Shoe Bird (1964) with Beth
Krush, Illustrator
Amusing events occur when Arturo, the parrot who
works in a shoe store, fits the other birds with new shoes.
Fictions (2000)
Eudora Welty: Complete Novels
(1998), Michael Kreyling and Richard Ford, eds.
In a career spanning five decades,
Eudora Welty has chronicled her own Mississippi with a depth and
intensity matched only by William
Faulkner. One of the most influential writers of the century, her
novels and stories blend the storytelling tradition of the South with a
modernist sensibility attuned to the mysteries and ambiguities of
experience. Welty explores the complex abundance of southern, and
particularly southern women's, lives with an artistry that
Salman Rushdie has called
"impossible to overpraise."
The Optimist's Daughter (1972) --
Winner 1972
Pulitzer Prize for Literature
This story of a young woman's confrontation with
death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.
Losing Battles (1970)
Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants
gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed
of the true storyteller's gift, the members of this clan cannot resist the
temptation to swap tales.
The Ponder Heart (1954)
Delta Wedding (1946)
On William Faulkner (2003)
On William Faulkner
brings together Welty's reviews, essays, lectures, and musings on
William Faulkner, including such
gems as her reviews of Intruder in the Dust and The Selected Letters of
William Faulkner, as well as her comments during her presentation of the
Gold Medal to Faulkner during the National Institute of Arts and Letters
awards ceremony in 1962. The collection also features an excerpt from a
letter she wrote to the novelist Jean Stafford, telling of meeting
Faulkner and of going sailing with him. Included too are Welty's
impassioned defense of Faulkner's work---published as a letter to the New
Yorker---and the obituary of the Nobel laureate that she wrote for the
Associated Press.
In addition, the book includes a cryptic postcard Faulkner wrote to Welty
from Hollywood, plus five photographs, and a caricature of Faulkner drawn
by Welty during the 1930s.
Commenting on the place of both writers in contemporary literature, an
essay by the noted literary scholar Noel Polk puts the collection in
context and offers assessment and appreciation of their achievements in
American literature.
On William Faulkner is a valuable resource for exploring Faulkner's work
and sensing Welty's critical voice. Her sharp critical eye and graceful
prose make her an astute commentator on his legacy.
On Writing (2002)
Eudora Welty was one of the
twentieth century’s greatest literary figures. For as long as students
have been studying her fiction as literature, writers have been looking to
her to answer the profound questions of what makes a story good, a novel
successful, a writer an artist. On Writing presents the answers in seven
concise chapters discussing the subjects most important to the narrative
craft, and which every fiction writer should know, such as place, voice,
memory, and language. But even more important is what Welty calls “the
mystery” of fiction writing—how the writer assembles language and ideas to
create a work of art.
Originally part of her larger work The Eye of the Story but never
before published in a stand -- alone volume, On Writing is a
handbook every fiction writer, whether novice or master, should keep
within arm’s reach. Like
The Elements of Style,
On Writing is concise and fundamental, authoritative and
timeless—as was Eudora Welty herself.
Norton Book of Friendship (1991)
with Roland A. Sharp, ed.
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews (1978)
Much like her highly acclaimed
One Writer's Beginnings,
The Eye of the Story offers Eudora Welty's invaluable meditations on
the art of writing. In addition to seven essays on craft, this collection
brings together her penetrating and instructive commentaries on a wide
variety of individual writers, including
Anton Chekov, E.M. Forster,
Jane Austen,
Virginia Woolf,
Willa Cather, and
William Faulkner.
Three Papers on Fiction (1962)
The First Story (1999)
Why I Live at the P.O (1995)
Morgana: Two Stories from The Golden Apples (1988)
Moon Lake and Other Stories (1980)
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980)
This complete collection includes all the published
stories of Eudora Welty.
Thirteen Stories (1965)
Bride Of Innisfallen & Other Stories (1955) Selected Stories (1954)
The Golden Apples (1949)
Music from Spain (1948)
The Wide Net And Other Stories (1943)
The Robber Bridegroom (1942)
A Curtain of Green: And Other Stories (1941)
A Worn Path (1940)
Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and
Eudora Welty (2007) by Barbara Ladd
See also Eudora Welty,
William Faulkner, and
Zora Neale Hurston.
Eudora Welty: A Biography (2005)
by Suzanne Marrs
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.
Beyond and Alone: The Theme of Isolation in Selected Short Fiction of Kate Chopin, Katherine
Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty (2006) by Hiroko Arima
See also Kate Chopin and
Katherine Anne Porter.
Eudora Welty and Walker Percy: The Concept of Home in Their Lives and Literature (2003) by Marion Montgomery|
Eudora Welty and
Walker Percy were friends but very
different writers, even though both were from the Deep South and intensely
interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores
in each the concept of home and the importance of home to the homo viator
("man on his way"), and anti-idealism and anti-romanticism.
The differences between Welty and Percy and in their fiction were revealed
in the habits of their lives. Welty spent her life in Jackson,
Mississippi, and was very much a member of the community. Percy was a
wanderer who finally settled in Covington, Louisiana, because it was, as
he called it, a "noplace." The author also asserts that Percy somewhat
envied Welty and her stability in Jackson, and that for him, place was
such a nagging concern that it became a personal problem to him as homo
viator.
One Writer's Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty
(2002) by Suzanne Marrs
In One Writer's Imagination,
Suzanne Marrs draws upon nearly twenty years
of conversations, interviews, and friendship with
Eudora Welty to discuss the
intersections between biography and art in the Pulitzer Prize winner's
work. Through an engaging chronological and comprehensive reading of the
Welty canon, Marrs describes the ways Welty's creative process transformed
and transfigured fact to serve the purposes of fiction. She points to the
spark that lit Welty's imagination--an imagination that thrived on
polarities in her personal life and in society at large.
Marrs offers new evidence of the role Welty's mother, circle of friends,
and community played in her development as a writer and analyzes the
manner in which her most heartfelt relationships--including her romance
with John Robinson--informs her work. She charts the profound and often
subtle ways Welty's fiction responded to the crucial historical episodes
of her time and the writer's personal reactions to the issues of her day.
In doing so, Marrs proves Welty to be a much more political artist than
has been conventionally thought.
Marrs's relationship to Eudora Welty
as a friend, scholar, and archivist--with access to private papers and
restricted correspondence--makes her a unique authority on Welty's
forty-year career. The eclectic approach of her study speaks to the
exhilarating power of imagination Welty so thoroughly enjoyed in the act
of writing.
Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty among Artists of the Thirties (2002) by Rene Paul Barilleaux
Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade?
(2001), Harriet Pollack and Suzanne Marrs, eds.
Eudora Welty, Thirteen Essays: Selected from Eudora Welty, Critical Essays (1999)
by Peggy W. Prenshaw
Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in
Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty
(1999) by Hulia Eichelberger
See also Eudora Welty,
Ralph Ellison,
Saul Bellow, and
Toni Morrison.
Understanding Eudora Welty (1999)
by Michael Kreyling
Eudora Welty: A Writer's Life
(1998) by Ann Waldron
"Your private life should be kept private," said
Eudora Welty in response to a question about the relevance of
biography. "My own I don't think would particularly interest anybody, for
that matter. But I'd guard it; I feel strongly about that. They'd have a
hard time trying to find out something about me."
This first biography of Eudora Welty makes a significant contribution to
the world of letters as a chronicle of the life and achievements of one of
our greatest living authors, a woman of paramount importance in the
American literary canon. From a Mississippi childhood to a brief
editorial career in New York, from the sale of her first short story to
her beloved and bestselling memoir--One Writer's Beginnings, which
she wrote at age seventy-five--this biography charts the details and
moments that contributed to the development of Welty's unique vision and
unforgettable voice.
Here, too, are her literary influences, including her correspondence and
meeting with the great man Faulkner, the invaluable friendships with
Katherine Anne Porter and Elizabeth Bowen, the rivalry with Carson
McCullers, and the small circle of lifelong confidants to whom Eudora
entrusted her work: agent Diarmuid Russell, editor Mary Lou Aswell, and
Robert Penn Warren. Ann Waldron brings together the details and moments
of Welty's life, and shows how this writer's sensibility is formed and
informed above all by a sense of place and purpose.
Elegant and evenhanded, respectful and authoritative, the first biography
to chart the life of this national treasure is required reading for Welty
fans everywhere.
Southern Selves: From Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons
-- A Collection
of Autobiographical Writing (1998) by James Watkins
In this marvelous anthology thirty-one of the
South's finest writers -- from Mark Twain
and Maya Angelou to
Kaye Gibbons and
Reynolds Price, to
Eudora Welty and
Richard Wright -- make their
intensely personal contributions to a vibrant collective picture of
southern life.
In the hands of these superb artists, the South's rich tradition of
storytelling is brilliantly revealed. Whether slave or master,
intellectual or "redneck," each voice in this moving and unforgettable
collection is proof that southern literature richly deserves its
reputation for irreverent humor, exquisite language, a feeling for place,
and an undying, often heartbreaking sense of the past.
Eudora Welty: A Study of the Short Fiction
(1997) by Carol Ann Johnston
Whether "Why I Live at the P.O.," "Clytie," or "Moon
Lake," a short story by Eudora Welty (b. 1909) is remarkable for its
ability to convey the lyrical in everyday life, to offer haunting glimpses
into the interior lives of individuals. Known for her marvelous ability to
render the life and character of the deep South, Welty is particularly
admired for her unfailing powers as an observer and her keen ear for the
spoken word. In Eudora Welty: A Study of the Short Fiction, Carol
Ann Johnston provides a first-rate guide to the writer's canon of short
stories. Emphasizing the influence on Welty's literary craft of her work
as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration during the Great
Depression, Johnston presents a compelling appraisal of the writer's
unique contributions to the tradition of the short story. An original
approach to appreciating the accomplishments of a singular voice in
American literature, Eudora Welty: A Study of the Short Fiction
holds definite appeal for students and scholars of American literature,
the short story, and Southern literature.
Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf: Gender, Genre, and Influence (1997) by Suzan Harrison
See also Virginia
Woolf.
A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Eudora Welty
(1996) by Diana R. Pingatore
The subject of ever-growing critical attention and
admiration, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty is emerging as one
of the most innovative writers of the short story of this century. This
guide offers a compilation of the scholarship and commentary on the 41
stories published in Collected Stories including Petrified Man, Why I Live
at the P.O., Death of a Traveling Salesman, and The Purple Hat.
More Conversations With Eudora Welty
(1996), Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, ed.
Daughter of the Swan: Love and Knowledge in Eudora Welty's Fiction (1994) by Gail L. Mortimer
Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place
(1994, 1997) by Jan Nordby Gretlund
Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction
of Eudora Welty (1994) by Ruth D. Weston
The Dragon's Blood: Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty's the Golden Apples (1994) by Rebecca Mark
Author and Agent: Eudora Welty and Diamuid Russell (1991) by Michael Kreyling
The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction
(1991) by Peter Schmidt
Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Research and Criticism, 1970-1986
(1990), Cameron Northouse, ed.
Eudora Welty: Seeing Black and White
(1990) by Robert MacNeil
Serious Daring from Within: Female Narrative Strategies in Eudora Welty's Novels
(1990) by Franziska Gygax
Most critics of southern novelist Eudora Welty have
analyzed her work with a primary focus on her southern background. In
Serious Daring from Within Franziska Gygax instead uses a
gender-specific approach to analyze Welty's novels, illustrating how
Welty's narrative techniques establish female authority and frequently
undermine patriarchal values. From this unique perspective, Gygax examines
Delta Wedding, The Golden Apples, Losing Battles and The Optimist's
Daughter, and argues that Eudora Welty indirectly and subtly created a
"radical vision" of a female world. The study applies feminist literary
theory when considering the various narrative structures of each novel.
Scholars of literary criticism, southern literary studies and/or women's
studies will find Serious Daring from Within enlightening and
rewarding.
Critical Essays on Eudora Welty
(1989), Lee Emling Harding and W. Craig Turner, eds.
The Welty Collection: A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts at the Mississippi Department of
Archives and History (1989) by Suzanne Marrs
See also Eudora Welty.
Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor (1985) by Louise Westling
See also Carson
McCullers, Eudora Welty, and
Flannery O'Connor.
Conversations With Eudora Welty
(1984), Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, ed.
Eudora Welty a Form of Thanks
(1979) by Louis D. Dollarhide with Ann J. Abadie, ed.
The Narrow Escape of The Petrified Man: Early Eudora Welty Stories
(1979) by Charlotte Capers
A Still Moment: Essays on the Art of Eudora Welty
(1978), John F. Desmond, ed.
The Rhetoric of Eudora Welty's Short Stories
(1973) by Zelma Turner Howard
Eudora Welty (1969) by Neil David
Isaacs
Season of Dreams: The Fiction of Eudora Welty (1965) by Alfred Appel
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