It was Welty’s favorite among her books, and she described it as “an experience in a writer’s own discovery of affinities. The Golden Apples (1946) is a series of interrelated stories about the inhabitants of the fictional town of Morgana, Mississippi. The Wide Net and Other Stories (1943), in which historical figures such as Aaron Burr (“First Love”) and John James Audubon (“A Still Moment”) appear as characters, shows her evolving mastery as a regional chronicler.
Stories, Essays and Memoir presents Welty’s collected short stories, an astonishing body of work that has made her one of the most respected writers of short fiction. A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (1941), her first book, includes many of her most popular stories, such as “A Worn Path.” “Powerhouse,” and the farcical “Why I Live at the P.O.” It is the act of a writer’s imagination that I set most high.” Whether this happens to be a man or a woman, old or young, with skin black or white, the primary challenge lies in making the jump itself. Of her own work, she wrote: “What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human being who is not myself.
In this volume along with its companion, The Library of America presents all of the most significant and best-loved works of Eudora Welty.
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