Word: eudora
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Women will be heard from in other ways. Doris Lessing, forsaking African memories and revelations of the inner world of the feminine intellect in London, plunges into fictional futurism with a book called 7999. Eudora Welty, the soft-voiced but enduring prose mistress of Mississippi, is bringing out her first novel in 15 years. Jean Stafford (Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion), who has also siphoned off much energy into intricate short stories, has finished her first novel in 17 years. Titled A Parliament of Women, it is set in the author's native Colorado, and one of the main...
...Eudora Welty will give a reading from her fiction tonight at 8 p.m. in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Miss Welty's works include several volumes of short stories: A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Bride of Innisfallen; a book of interrelated stories: The Golden Apples; a novel: Delta Wedding; and two short novels: The Robber Bridgeroom and The Ponder Heart. She has received three O. Henry Memorial Prizes, two Guggenheim Awards, an Harvard from the National Institute for Arts and Letters, and in 1955 the William Dean Howells Medal, presented by the American Academy of Arts...
...find a good first novel, but it never is surprising to find that it comes from the South. From Harper Lee. whose To Kill a Mockingbird won this year's Pulitzer Prize, the list runs back to writers of remarkable quality. William Styron, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter are but a few whose first fiction showed them to be in full command of talents that some novelists fail to achieve in a lifetime. How do they get that way? Is it, as Author Lee has suggested, that the South is the last refuge of eccentrics...