Over the next two years, Robert Penn Warren
and Albert Erskine
of the famed Southern Review would publish six of EW
's stories, most significantly A Memory, A Piece of News, A Curtain...
Publishing
Eudora Welty
It was not easy for EW
to find a market for her fiction. Though he would eventually become instrumental to her early success, Robert Penn Warren
once rejected what is now one of her best-known...
Textual Production
Eudora Welty
This publication fell in an unfertile period. Between August 1942 and December 1944, EW
's literary production was at an all-time low; she had passionately sought to transform experience into fiction, yet the overwhelming stress...
Literary responses
Flannery O'Connor
There too her class was visited by John Crowe Ransom
, who was impressed by her stories but stopped in his reading aloud of one of them when he encountered (in dialogue) the word nigger...