Eudora Alice Welty fu una autrice americana molto apprezzata, nota principalmente per i suoi racconti e romanzi che raffigurano il profondo Sud americano. Nacque il 13 aprile 1909 a Jackson, Mississippi, dove trascorse gran parte della sua vita. Welty era figlia di Mary Chestina e Christian Webb Welty ed ebbe due fratelli minori, Walter Andrews e Edward Jefferson. Sua madre era una insegnante di scuola e la famiglia faceva parte della chiesa metodista.
Welty studiò al Mississippi State College for Women (ora chiamato Mississippi University for Women), all'University of Wisconsin-Madison e alla Columbia Business School. Mentre era alla Columbia University, frequentava regolarmente il caffè Romany Marie nel 1930. Tuttavia, la vera passione di Welty era la letteratura e presto si dedicò alla scrittura di fiction. Il suo primo racconto, "Death of a Traveling Salesman", fu pubblicato nel 1936 e il suo lavoro attirò l'attenzione di Katherine Anne Porter, che divenne una mentore per lei. La prima collezione di racconti di Welty, A Curtain of Green, fu pubblicata nel 1941 e la consolidò come una delle voci letterarie di spicco d'America.
Oltre alla sua scrittura, Welty lavorò anche come fotografa per i Works Progress Administration durante gli anni '30. Questo lavoro la portò in giro per lo Stato del Mississippi, dove fotografò persone di tutte le classi economiche e sociali. Le collezioni delle sue fotografie includono "One Time, One Place" e "Photographs."
Il lavoro di Welty ricevette numerosi premi e riconoscimenti durante la sua carriera. Nel 1973, vinse il Premio Pulitzer per il suo romanzo, The Optimist's Daughter. Fu anche la prima autrice vivente ad avere le sue opere pubblicate dalla Library of America. Nel 1992, Welty fu insignita del Rea Award for the Short Story per i suoi contributi alla vita per la short story americana. Era anche un membro fondatore del Fellowship of Southern Writers, fondato nel 1987. Nonostante la sua fama, Welty rimase una figura familiare nella sua città natale di Jackson, Mississippi, dove visse vicino al Belhaven College. Morì il 23 luglio 2001 all'età di 92 anni ed è sepolta nel Greenwood Cemetery a Jackson.
Romanzi singoli
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The Robber Bridegroom
1942
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Delta Wedding
1946
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The Ponder Heart
1954
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Losing Battles
1970
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The Optimist's Daughter
1972
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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Moon Lake
2011
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Moon Lake and Other Stories
1980
Collezioni
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The Bride of the Innisfallen
1940
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The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories
1940
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Why I Live at the P.O. and Other Stories
1941
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Why I Live at the P.O.
1941
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A Curtain of Green
1941
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The Wide Net
1943
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The Golden Apples
1949
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Thirteen Stories
1965
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Selected Stories of Eudora Welty
1977
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Moon Lake and Other Stories
1980
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1980
12
Stories, Essays & Memoir
1998
's Chapbooks
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The Shoe Bird
1964
Libri di non-fiction
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One Time, One Place
1971
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The Eye of the Story
1978
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One Writer's Beginnings
1983
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Photographs
1989
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Some Notes on River Country
2003
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On William Faulkner
2003
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Occasions
2009
A Harvest/Hbj Book Books (with Thomas Merton)
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A Curtain of Green
1941
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The Robber Bridegroom
1942
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Delta Wedding
1946
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The Waters of Siloe (By: Thomas Merton)
1949
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My $50,000 Year at the Races
1980
A Harvest/Hbj Book Books
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A Curtain of Green
1941
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The Robber Bridegroom
1942
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Delta Wedding
1946
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Waters of Siloe
1976
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The Waters of Siloe
1979
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My $50,000 Year at the Races
1980
Selected Shorts Books
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For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space)
1993
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Even More Laughs (By: Jonathan Lethem, T.C. Boyle, Philip Roth, Stephen Colbert, Miranda July, Christine Baranski, Alec Baldwin, Robert Sean Leonard, Symphony Space, Jerry Zaks, Julia Slavin, Harry Mathews, Thomas Meehan, Marian Seldes, Parker Posey)
1998
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Timeless Classics (By: Shirley Jackson, James Thurber, Raymond Carver, John Shea, Jack London, Edith Wharton, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Connell, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Charles Keating, Symphony Space, Marian Seldes, Isaiah Sheffer, Steven Gilborn)
2006
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Falling in Love (By: E. Nesbit, Padgett Powell, Maile Meloy, Rick Bass, Edna O'Brien, Fionnula Flanagan, Hope Davis, Laurie Colwin, Ted Marcoux, Christina Pickles, Jane Curtin, William Hurt, Symphony Space)
2007
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Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Pets! (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Tales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever, Tessa Hadley, John Biguenet, Adam Haslett, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Symphony Space, Galina Vromen)
2007
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Family Matters (By: Symphony Space)
2007
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Are We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space)
2008
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A Touch of Magic (By: Ray Bradbury, T.C. Boyle, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Donald Barthelme, Daniel Gerroll, Symphony Space, Andrew Lam, Jerry Zaks)
2009
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The William Hurt Collection (By: Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, Aleksandar Hemon, William Hurt, Ron Carlson, Symphony Space)
2009
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Whodunit? (By: Ed McBain, Dashiell Hammett, Shirley Jackson, John Shea, Louise Erdrich, Nadine Gordimer, René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Sean Leonard, C.S. Montanye, Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer, Hattie Winston)
2009
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American Classics (With: Edgar Allan Poe, Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, Alice Walker, Donald Barthelme, John Sayles, Amy Tan, Symphony Space)
2010
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New American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Aleksandar Hemon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Symphony Space)
2011
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Poe! (By: Symphony Space)
2012
Literary Conversations Books
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Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
1969
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Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz
1981
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Conversations with Graham Greene
1983
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Conversations with Eudora Welty
1985
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Conversations with Walker Percy
1985
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Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer
1985
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Conversations with William Styron
1985
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Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
1986
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Conversations with Lillian Hellman
1986
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Conversations with Tennessee Williams
1986
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Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
1986
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Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter
1987
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Truman Capote: Conversations
1987
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Conversations with Flannery O'Connor
1987
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Conversations with Peter Taylor
1987
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Conversations with Arthur Miller
1987
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Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
1988
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Conversations with Edward Albee
1988
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Conversations with Erskine Caldwell
1988
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Conversations with Norman Mailer
1988
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Conversations with Robert Graves
1989
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Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
1989
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Conversations with Shelby Foote
1989
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Conversations with Robertson Davies
1989
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Conversations with James Baldwin
1989
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Conversations with John Gardner
1990
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Conversations with Richard Wilbur
1990
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Conversations with Tom Wolfe
1990
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Conversations with Raymond Carver
1990
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Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
1990
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Conversations with Reynolds Price
1991
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Conversations with Bernard Malamud
1991
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Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer
1991
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Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
1992
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Conversations With Thornton Wilder
1992
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Conversations with Robert Coles
1992
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Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher
1992
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More Conversations with Walker Percy
1993
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Conversations with Richard Wright
1993
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Conversations with Paul Bowles
1993
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Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
1994
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Conversations with Amiri Baraka
1994
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Conversations with Toni Morrison
1994
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Conversations with Saul Bellow
1994
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Conversations with Henry Miller
1994
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Conversations with Ernest Gaines
1995
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Conversations with Ralph Ellison
1995
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Conversations with Chester Himes
1995
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Conversations with Susan Sontag
1995
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Conversations with Ishmael Reed
1995
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Conversations with Derek Walcott
1996
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More Conversations with Eudora Welty
1996
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Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
1996
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Conversations with Pauline Kael
1996
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Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
1997
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Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
1997
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Conversations with Chinua Achebe
1997
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Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
1998
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Conversations with Denise Levertov
1998
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Conversations With William Faulkner
1999
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Conversations with E. L. Doctorow
1999
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Conversations With John Fowles
1999
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Conversations with Salman Rushdie
2000
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Conversations with William S. Burroughs
2000
65
Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko
2000
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Conversations with Chaim Potok
2001
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Conversations with Richard Ford
2001
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Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
2001
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Conversations with Mary Gordon
2002
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Conversations with Jim Harrison
2002
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Conversations with Clarence Major
2002
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Conversations with Margaret Walker
2002
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Conversations with Erica Jong
2002
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Elie Wiesel: Conversations
2002
75
Joseph Brodsky: Conversations
2003
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Conversations with Rita Dove
2003
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Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald
2003
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Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
2003
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Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann
2003
80
Conversations with Gloria Naylor
2004
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Conversations with Audre Lorde
2004
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Conversations with Ray Bradbury
2004
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Conversations With John le Carré
2004
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Conversations with Isaac Asimov
2005
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Conversations with Don DeLillo
2005
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Conversations with Gore Vidal
2005
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Conversations with Robert Penn Warren
2005
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Conversations with Jack Kerouac
2005
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Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
2005
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Conversations with Thomas McGuane
2006
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Conversations with Larry Brown
2007
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Conversations with Sonia Sanchez
2007
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Conversations with Wendell Berry
2007
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Conversations with Leon Forrest
2007
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Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro
2008
Eudora Welty Anthologies
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Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century
1954
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Points of View
1956
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Women and Fiction
1975
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In the Looking Glass
1977
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Stories of the Modern South
1977
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Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1
1983
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Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
1989
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Magical Realist Fiction
1984
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Women Writers at Work
1989
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Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality
1991
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Hot and Cool: Jazz Short Stories
1990
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Cries of the Spirit
1991
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Growing Up in the South
1991
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
1992
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
1992
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The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces
1992
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Writing Women's Lives
1994
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First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers
1994
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Downhome
1995
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Mistresses of the Dark
1998
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The Eloquent Essay
2000
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century
2000
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40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
2000
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The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles