Publisher's Synopsis
Each volume in this series concentrates on the major figures of a particular literary period, movement or genre. This volume covers southern women writers of the USA: Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty. Individual author entries chronicle each writer's career through a selection of literary documents, including letters, notebook and diary entries, interviews and contemporary book reviews. Entries are illustrated with facsimilies of manuscripts and revised galley proofs, title pages, dust jackets and pictures from the authors' lives.
