Archive for June, 2007



Welty v. Maxwell on autobiography in fiction

Speaking of Eudora Welty, not long ago I came upon a fascinating set of conversations that Virginia Ross and Sally Wolff had with Welty and her friend and former editor William Maxwell about each other in 1999. Maxwell died the following year. The two writers discussed, among other things, their opposing perspectives on using people and events from their own . . .

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