Although Eudora Welty has considered herself primarily a short-story writer, and although her earliest critical acclaim resulted from her brilliant experiments with form in that genre, it was not until the publication of her novel Losing Battles (1970) t...

Eudora Welty 's achievement in the short-story genre is primarily in the area of form. Several other writers could be said to have introduced the subject matter of the South to the American short story in the twentieth century. In fact, to look at Welty'...

Eudora Welty's importance lies in the fact that during the past four decades she has produced an original and enduring body of fiction. Independent of any specific literary group, clear even of the influence of her most illustrious fellow Mississippian,...