The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews - Softcover

Welty, Eudora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394727320 ISBN 13: 9780394727325

Publisher: Vintage, 1979

Synopsis

Much like her highly acclaimed One Writer's Beginnings, The Eye of the Story offers Eudora Welty's invaluable meditations on the art of writing. In addition to seven essays on craft, this collection brings together her penetrating and instructive commentaries on a wide variety of individual writers, including Jane Austen, E. M. Forster, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, and Virginia Woolf.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Much like her highly acclaimed One Writer's Beginnings, this book offers invaluable meditations on the art of writing. In addition to seven essays on craft, this collection brings together her penetrating and instructive commentaries on a wide variety of individual writers.

About the Author:

One of America's most admired authors, Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1909. . She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She is the author of, among many other books, One Writer's Beginnings, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist's Daughter which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. She died in 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0394727320
• ISBN 13: 9780394727325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 355