Bloom, Harold, ed. Eudora Welty, New York: Chelsea House, 1986.

A collection of critical essays on Welty's fiction by the most well known Welty scholars of the past several decades.

Johnston, Carol Ann. Eudora Welty: A Study of the Short Fiction, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997.

A clear and comprehensive introduction to Welty's writing, this volume includes an analytical essay, excerpts from Welty's own writings on fiction, and selected reviews and articles reflecting how Welty's writing has been interpreted from the 1940s through the present.

Waldron, Ann. Eudora: A Writer's Life, New York: Doubleday, 1998.

This first biography of Welty to be written offers a great deal of factual information about the life and achievements of the very private writer.

Welty, Eudora. The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews, New York: Random House, 1979.

This highly readable collection of Welty's non-fiction writing offers her perspectives on other authors...