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<p>Eudora Welty (1909-2001) and William Faulkner (1897-1962) were almost unquestionably Mississippi's leading literary lions during the twentieth century. Their influence on American literature is immeasurable.</p> <p><i>On William Faulkner</i> brings together Welty's reviews, essays, lectures, and musings on Faulkner, including such gems as her reviews of <i>Intruder in the Dust</i> and <i>The Selected Letters of William Faulkner</i>, as well as her comments during her presentation of the Gold Medal to Faulkner during the National Institute of Arts and Letters awards ceremony in 1962. The collection also features an excerpt from a letter she wrote to the novelist Jean Stafford, telling of meeting Faulkner and of going sailing with him. Included too are Welty's impassioned defense of Faulkner's work-published as a letter to the <i>New Yorker</i>-and the obituary of the Nobel laureate that she wrote for the Associated Press.</p> <p>In addition, the book includes a cryptic postcard Faulkner wrote to Welty from Hollywood, plus six photographs, and a caricature of Faulkner drawn by Welty during the 1930s.</p> <p>Commenting on the place of both writers in contemporary literature, an ess

Author

Eudora Welty, Noel Polk

Publisher

[Jackson]: University Press of Mississippi

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781578065707

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities