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eudora welty.
from child author to literary legend.
About
Eudora Alice Welty led an exciting and surprising life. Before she won a Pulitzer Prize, as a little girl she made her own books and won national poetry prizes. As a young woman during the Great Depression, she was a photographer and took pictures all over the South. These and other stories pack the life of one of Mississippi’s most famous authors. With author and teacher Richelle Putnam, learn about the remarkable life of one of Mississippi’s literary treasures, complete with vivid illustrations by John Aycock that are as colorful as Eudora’s stories.
Highlights
A Word from others
★★★★★ 5/5
Contrary to some beliefs, people in Mississippi can read. Some of us can even write. One of them was named Eudora Welty. Richelle Putnam has written an excellent account of this extraordinary Mississippian who has gone down in literary history as one of the best. The title is well chosen for this is an inspiring life and a remarkable story. The book isn’t very thick as biographies go, but it gets in all the facts of Eudora’s life in a readable fashion. As a young girl in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora was busy writing stories and creating characters. This talent grew and expanded through college years and as as she lived her life. The cover is colorful and attractive and encourages one to pick up the book and read it. While the art work within the book is attractive, I cannot see that it adds to the words. The book would have been just as good without as artist’s painting of the events presented. But the quality of the book is exceptional with slick pages rather than pulp. A very detailed time line is provided and Putnam lists her sources carefully and fully. The Inspiring Life of Eurora Welty is definitely a keeper. Anyone who enjoys Welty’s writing is sure to appreciate this inside look into her life and times.
Margie Read
Amazon
★★★★★ 5/5
This is the first interview that Southern Literary Review has done about a work in the young-adult (or, as they say, YA) category. “Although The Inspiring Life of Eudora Welty is about Welty, it’s also about milieu in which she was born and raised… about Mississippi and about race relations, and a bit about politics.” Allen Mendenhall, The Southern Literary Review
Alan Mendenhall
Editor
