Description: An anthology of reviews, essays, and appreciations that reveal the links uniting the careers of many noted southern women writers
Brief description: Rosemary M. Magee is associate dean of Emory College and is editor of Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers and Conversations with Flannery O'Connor, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: This collection of essays, reviews, speeches, and interviews details the interaction among a number of southwestern women writers, including Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Josephine Humphreys. Occupation, gender, and region conspire to join these authors in kinship, and, like family members, they offer criticism, support, admiration, and understanding to one another. This anthology will be useful both in the college classroom and for the general reader. It is sure to enlighten, entertain, inspire, and delight.--Dorothy Golden, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro "Library Journal"