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Loading... Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonaldby Suzanne Marrs
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 Eudora Welty, arguably the best American short-story writer of her generation, and Ross Macdonald, the finest detective novelist of the 1950s and ’60s, first met May 17, 1971, near the elevator in the lobby of New York’s Algonquin Hotel. For the previous year, the two had been in correspondence, each vying to outdo the other in mutual admiration...Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan, respectively the biographers of Welty and Macdonald, have edited this intense correspondence with obvious authority and provide useful brief commentary and endnotes. But they also stress, perhaps unduly, that these two quiet writers longed for a more intimate relationship. I’m not convinced of that. Welty had been Miss Welty for a long time, and Macdonald, a thoughtful moralist as his books show, seems never to have contemplated divorce from his wife, Margaret Millar, herself a distinguished suspense novelist. An intimate, luminous portrait of a friendship. Awards
"In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence between fellow writers and kindred spirits. Though separated by background, geography, genre, and his marriage, the two authors shared their lives in witty, wry, tender, and at times profoundly romantic letters, each drawing on the other for inspiration, comfort, and strength. They brought their literary talents to bear on a wide range of topics, discussing each others' publications, the process of translating life into fiction, the nature of the writer's block each encountered, books they were reading, and friends and colleagues they cherished. They also discussed the world around them, the Vietnam War, the Nixon, Carter, and Reagan presidencies, and the environmental threats facing the nation. The letters reveal the impact each had on the other's work, and they show the personal support Welty provided when Alzheimer's destroyed Macdonald's ability to communicate and write. The editors of this collection, who are the definitive biographers of these two literary figures, have provided extensive commentary and an introduction. They also include Welty's story fragment "Henry," which addresses Macdonald's disease. With its mixture of correspondence and narrative, Meanwhile There Are Letters provides a singular reading experience: a prose portrait of two remarkable artists and one unforgettable relationship"--
"The moving portrait in letters of two American literary icons and their deeply loving friendship. Though separated by background, geography, genre, and his marriage, the two authors shared their lives in witty, wry, tender, and at times profoundly romantic letters, each drawing on the other for inspiration, comfort, and strength. The letters reveal the impact each had on the other's work, and they show the personal support Welty provided when Alzheimer's destroyed Macdonald's ability to communicate and write"-- No library descriptions found. |
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