Eudora Welty: A Biography - Softcover

Marrs, Suzanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156030632 ISBN 13: 9780156030632

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR ONE WRITER'S IMAGINATION
"Suzanne Marrs knows more about Eudora Welty than anyone else, and here she serves up a generous portion of her knowledge. In Marrs's clear-eyed gaze, Welty only goes on growing as a woman, a writer, a human being; and what Marrs sees is convincing."
-REYNOLDS PRICE

From the Back Cover:

"Eudora Welty's readers, throughout her long life, heard rumors that conveyed a sense of inexplicable calm--a stay-at-home subsistence with her mother in a Mississippi struck first by the Depression and then the wars of integration, no husband, no children, no steady job, and a very slim income. Yet for thirty years, great fiction streamed from her. Now Suzanne Marrs has, for the first time, uncovered a life more striking than the rumors and truer--a story that proves tragic or triumphant or both. Among other landmarks, the life was bounded by two hopelessly complex love affairs, by an eventual fame which the great work had richly earned, and at last by a troubling creative silence that was nonetheless soothed in a final peace. Few distinguished American writers have been as honestly yet sympathetically understood as Eudora Welty is in Suzanne Marrs's scrupulous book."--Reynolds Price

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0156030632
• ISBN 13: 9780156030632
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 652