Eudora: A Writer's Life
Unauthorized and written truly without the cooperation of its subject, this elegant and even-handed biography covers Ms. Welty's entire life, from her Mississippi childhood to an early advertising career in New York, from the sale of her first short story to her literary friendships and rivalries.
Unauthorized and written truly without the cooperation of its subject, this elegant and even-handed biography covers Ms. Welty's entire life, from her Mississippi childhood to an early advertising career in New York, from the sale of her first short story to her literary friendships and rivalries.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385476478 (0385476477)
Publish date: November 10th 1998
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
This biography of Eudora Welty is unauthorized—but not because the author wanted to say anything negative about her subject. No, indeed, Ann Waldron writes with a nearly fawning reverence. But Welty was immovably opposed to all biographies whatsoever, and furthermore told all her friends and acquain...