Description Tell about Night Flowers presents previously unpublished Letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger.
In 2016 she was honored with the Phoenix Award for outstanding contributions to the field of Welty studies..
She has also written articles in the Eudora Welty Review, Mississippi Quarterly, and other publications.
She is the author of Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty and coeditor of Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-First-Century Approaches.
about the Author Julia Eichelberger is Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature at the College of Charleston.
This book enhances our understanding of the life, landscape, and art of a major American writer.
Tell about Night Flowers not only lets readers glimpse Welty in her garden; it also reveals a brilliant and generous mind responding to the public events, people, art, and natural landscapes Welty encountered at home and on her travels during the 1940s.
By 1949 her art, like her friendships, had evolved in ways that she would never have predicted in 1940.
Taken together with thirty-five illustrations, they form a poetic narrative of their own, chronicling artistic and psychic developments that were underway before Welty was fully conscious of them.
Welty\'s lyrical, witty, and poignant discussions of Gardening and nature are delightful in themselves; they are also figurative expressions of Welty\'s views of her writing and her friendships.
One friend, Diarmuid Russell, was her literary agent in New York; the other, John Robinson, was a high school classmate and an aspiring writer who served in the Army in WWII, and long the focus of Welty\'s affection.
During this period, she also wrote hundreds of Letters to two friends who shared her love of gardening.
Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940s: A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, and The Golden Apples.
Description Tell about Night Flowers presents previously unpublished Letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger
