About the Book

For nearly sixty years, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, two of our most distinguished writers, penned letters to each other. They shared their worries about work and family, literary opinions and scuttlebutt, moments of despair and hilarity. Living half a continent apart, their friendship was nourished and maintained by their correspondence. Chock-full of reading recommendations, "What There Is to Say We Have Said "also bears witness to Welty and Maxwell's editorial relationships--both in his capacity as "New Yorker "editor and in their collegial back-and-forth on their work. It's also a chronicle of the literary world of the time; read talk of James Thurber, William Shawn, Katherine Anne Porter, J.D. Salinger, Isak Dinesen, William Faulkner, John Updike, Gertrude Stein, Walker Percy, Ford Maddox Ford, John Berryman, and many more. Here, Suzanne Marrs--Welty's biographer and friend--offers an unprecedented window into two intertwined lives. Through careful collection of these 300 letters as well as her own insightful introductions, she has created a record of a remarkable friendship, an illuminating look at artists in community, and a lyrical homage to the forgotten art of letter writing.

Product Details

Media: Hardcover Book, 499 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Edition: Unknown

ISBN-10: 0547376499

Publication Date: May. 12th, 2011

ISBN-13: 9780547376493

Dimensions: 15.49 x 23.11 x 4.06 cm

Shipping Weight: 0.73 kg

• Categories: Literary Biography & Literary Autobiography Literary Collections Letters