One Writer's Beginnings (William E.Massey Senior Lectures in the History of American Civilization) (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies) - Softcover

Welty, Eudora

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ISBN 10: 0674639278 ISBN 13: 9780674639270

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1995

Synopsis

One Writer's Beginnings Nominated for an American Book Award for Non-Fiction, this series of lectures provides an autobiographical analysis of the life and work of Eudora Welty. Welty's honours include the Pulitzer Prize, the American Book Award for Fiction and the Gold Medal for the Novel. Full description

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In these lectures, thoughtful attention is given to a great many experiences...It is all wonderful...The parts of the book that are about her family...are by turns hilarious and affecting. They are a kind of present...from Miss Welty to her audience.--William Maxwell "New Yorker "

[Eudora Welty] is to be looked for, not in blatant self-advertising confidences, hints and nudges, but in the metaphorical clues she drops, which are the exposures of a disciplined sensibility. From them we can deduce a history of a life. One might say her writing, spun out like the web of a 'noiseless patient spider, ' is not about but of herself. At bottom, the beauty and astonishment of her fiction, as Emerson might say, is 'all design.' For it is by design, by her calculated disclosures, that this storyteller makes herself and her writing powerful and free.--Daniel Aaron "London Review of Books "

Beguiling as autobiography and...profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write serious fiction...It may, at that, not be possible to convey to someone else that mysterious transfiguring gift by which dream, memory and experience become art. Yet, in these few pages, Eudora Welty seems to have followed the trail...to the richness of her maturity with a gracious and warming clarity.--Los Angeles Times Book Review

Synopsis:

Nominated for an American Book Award for Non-Fiction, this series of lectures provides an autobiographical analysis of the life and work of Eudora Welty. Welty's honours include the Pulitzer Prize, the American Book Award for Fiction and the Gold Medal for the Novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0674639278
• ISBN 13: 9780674639270
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116