Description: Intriguing essays on Welty's literary play with a beloved popular genre
Brief description: Harriet Pollack, College of Charleston, is author of Eudora Welty's Fiction and Photography: The Body of the Other Woman; editor of New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race; Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race; and Having Our Way: Women Rewriting Tradition in Twentieth-Century America; and coeditor (with Jacob Agner) of Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden In Plain Sight, (with Christopher Metress) of Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination, and (with Suzanne Marrs) of Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade? She now serves as editor of University Press of Mississippi's book series Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty. She has twice served as president of the Eudora Welty Society, has codirected four international Welty conferences including the 2009 Centennial, and in 2008 received the Phoenix Award for outstanding contributions to Welty scholarship.
Review Quotes: Eudora Welty and Mystery constitutes an unexpected, surprising, but productive approach to the works of a major American twentieth-century writer.--David McWhirter, professor of English at Texas A&M University