One Writer's Beginnings

from Jim53

Ms. Welty breaks her brief memoir into three pieces. The first two describe her family and upbringing, with emphasis on its effects on her thinking and chpoice of a career. She inherits her mother's love of books and reading; her sense of place is strong. In the final section, she reflects more o...

from DetailMuse

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. This short, gentle memoir hints at how the writer-Welty was formed. Its three sections (“Listening,” “Learning to See,” ...

from dmsteyn

I came to this short book through a friend of my mother's, who, knowing that I am interested in writing, thought that I might enjoy a peek into the creative maturing of one of her favourite writers. And enjoy it I did, despite not having read any of Welty's novels or short stories. The book had i...

from RandyMetcalfe

Begun as a series of three lectures delivered at Harvard in 1983, Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginnings traces the confluence of events and history, persons and places, that at that late point looking back upon her writing career she takes to constitute her vision or her voice. While much of any...

from varielle

A brief memoir of Eudora Welty's childhood in Mississippi and the people who influenced the writer she became, it is a pleasant slice of southern life in the early 20th century. Many of the memorable people in her formative years later reappear incognito as characters in her stories. Her family h...