{"product_id":"one-writers-beginnings-9781982152109","title":"One Writer's Beginnings","description":"\u003cb\u003eFeaturing a new introduction, this updated edition of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and one of the most revered figures in American letters is \"profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing as well. Everyday sights, sounds, and objects resonate with the emotions of recollection: the striking clocks, the Victrola, her orphaned father's coverless little book saved since boyhood, the tall mountains of the West Virginia back country that became a metaphor for her mother's sturdy independence, Eudora's earliest box camera that suspended a moment forever and taught her that every feeling awaits a gesture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her vivid descriptions of growing up in the South--of the interplay between black and white, between town and countryside, between dedicated schoolteachers and the children they taught--she recreates the vanished world of her youth with the same subtlety and insight that mark her fiction, capturing \"the mysterious transfiguring gift by which dream, memory, and experience become art\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart memoir, part exploration of the seeds of creativity, this unique distillation of a writer's beginnings offers a rare glimpse into the Mississippi childhood that made Eudora Welty the acclaimed and important writer she would become.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWelty, Eudora:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Eudora Welty (1909­-2001), one of the most important and beloved writers of the 20th century and master of the short story form, was born and lived most of her life in Jackson, Mississippi. The author of multiple essays, novellas, and novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Optimist's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDelta Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Order of the South, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, among many other literary awards. She was also the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630092390674,"sku":"9781982152109","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aef3c897-9b6e-48f0-b08c-7c9af8898ba9.jpg?v=1732743132","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/one-writers-beginnings-9781982152109","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}