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Carla Anderson Hills, LL.D., former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Eudora Welty, Litt.D., writer...
Such roots and obligations appear to have given the author a sensible attitude toward her work. She has avoided the dangers of early acclaim that might have thrust her into the footsteps of such belles of Southern lettres as Flannery O'Conner and Eudora Welty. Instead, Grau has usually played to her strength - a cautious application of talent to the Southern traditions and people she knows best...
...rural folk tale, this musical is very tongue in chic. Self-mocking humor, stylish performances and a stomping vitality convert the original Eudora Welty novella about a Mississippi Robin Hood into a Broadway romp...
...Yoknapatawpha County, the patch of "rich deep black alluvial soil" that was alike his invention and his home. Suddenly, a whole generation of Southerners saw the ground beneath their feet for what it could be: a foothold on the universe. Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, early Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor-for close to 40 years, the line of inspired Southern writers seemed inexhaustible. Critics sometimes refer to this outpouring as the Southern literary renaissance. It is a misnomer, for nothing like that flow of writing had occurred...
Amid the justified huzzahs for the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism (Watergate and all that), other Pulitzers were too easily overlooked. Emphatically not to be ignored were Robert Coles and Eudora Welty, the psychiatrist and the novelist, who had both written, at least in part, about the South: Coles with Volumes II and III of Children in Crisis, which describes his work with sharecroppers, migrant workers and ghetto children, and Welty with her short novel The Optimist's Daughter. Two younger writers were also among the prizewinners: Frances FitzGerald, 32, for Fire...