The Still Moment: Eudora Welty: Portrait of a Writer - Softcover

Binding, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057125117X ISBN 13: 9780571251179

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2011

Synopsis

First published in 1994, Paul Binding's portrait of Eudora Welty is being reissued to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her birth. Eudora Welty was a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of numerous literary friendships and awards. She was one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth-century. Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. Eudora Welty was brought up in the harsh American South when it was bedevilled both by the Depression and racial discrimination. Her acclaimed novels and short stories however are imbued with compassion and optimism, while also revealing her extraordinary gift for inhabiting the inner world of her characters. Paul Binding knew Eudora Welty, and in this book he draws on the many conversations he had with both her and her friends and fellow writers. The Still Moment presents a critical portrait of a remarkable mind and a profoundly humanist writer.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Binding is a novelist, critic, poet and cultural historian. He studied English Literature at Oxford University. He has written over ten books. Four - The Still Moment: Eudora Welty, Portrait of a Writer, Lorca, St Martin's Ride and My Cousin the Writer - are to be reissued in Faber Finds. Paul has a particular interest in the American South and Scandinavia. He lives in The Marches (the borderland of England and Wales).

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 057125117X
• ISBN 13: 9780571251179
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300