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...years ago, Anne Tyler was interviewing Eudora Welty, and they got on the subject of driving. Welty, who was getting up in age, allowed that she continued to drive but that she found propelling herself off the approach ramp onto superhighways particularly difficult, like insinuating yourself into a game of hot pepper, the furiously fast jump-rope play that still goes on in schoolyards everywhere. The sharpness of the image suggested a writer's mind at work, which in fact was the case...
...days ago (April 13, to be exact), Eudora Welty turned 75, and again a question surfaced concerning motoring one's aged self around. Welty said she continued to take the wheel, even though she found this approach-ramp business "like trying to enter an eggbeater." The vividness of the simile shows an author still polishing, still looking for the sharpest edge; it is a reflection of Welty today...
According to the Times. One Writer's Beginnings is the second of Welty's books to achieve bestseller status. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, published in 1980, appeared on the. Times bestseller list for six weeks...
Instead it took the efforts of one of American greatest writers--Eudora Welty--to catapult a Harvard University Press publication to the New York Times bestseller list...
Nine Citations for Lifetime Achievement went to women who have achieved distinction in their respective fields. Pulitzer-prizewinning author Eudora Welty said she was "thrilled" to receive the award...