Understanding Eudora Welty - Paperback

by Michael Kreyling (Author)

Understanding Eudora Welty provides close readings of Welty's novels and short stories and the memoir One Writer's Beginnings. Michael Kreyling sifts through contemporary reviews and recent criticism in arriving at his assessment. Noting that Welty's work has been before the public and in the minds of literary critics for nearly a half century, he suggests that understanding the critical history of her canon is almost as important as understanding the works themselves.

Front Jacket

An overview of the complete body of work by the first lady of American letters

Back Jacket

An overview of the complete body of work by the first lady of American letters

Author Biography

Michael Kreyling is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is editor of the Library of America editions of Eudora Welty's works and the author of Eudora Welty's Achievement of Order, Author and Agent: Eudora Welty and Diarmuid Russell, and other books on southern literature.