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Eudora Welty and Surrealism

By Stephen M. Fuller
Categories: Literature

Winner of the 2013 Eudora Welty Prize
Eudora Welty and Surrealism surveys Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. The study shows how the 1930s witnessed surrealism's ...

The Dragon’s Blood

By Rebecca Mark
Categories: Literature

Winner of the 1993 Eudora Welty Prize

“This well could be the most important book yet published on Eudora Welty,” says noted Welty scholar Noel Polk. “It offers a revolutionary and convincing reading of Welty ...

Warring Fictions

By Jim Neilson
Categories: Literature

Winner of the 1998 Eudora Welty Prize

Although the Vietnam conflict ended two decades ago, a fierce cultural war over how its literature is to be perceived continues to be waged. Warring Fictions charges ...

Lynda Barry

WINNER OF THE 2013 EISNER AWARD FOR BEST EDUCATIONAL/SCHOLARLY WORK

Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, illustrated fiction (Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and graphic ...

Hand of Fire

CO-WINNER OF THE 2012 EISNER AWARD FOR BEST EDUCATIONAL/SCHOLARLY WORK

Jack Kirby (1917–1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic F ...

One Writer’s Garden

By Susan Haltom & Jane Roy Brown
Photographs by Langdon Clay
Categories: Literature

Winner of the 2012 Eudora Welty Prize
By the time she reached her late twenties, Eudora Welty (1909–2001) was launching a distinguished literary career. She was also becoming a capable gardener under t ...

Recess Battles

By Anna R. Beresin
Foreword by Brian Sutton-Smith
Categories: Folklore

Winner of the Opie Prize from the Children’s Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society

As children wrestle with culture through their games, recess itself has become a battleground for the control ...

Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir

By Will Brantley
Categories: Literature

Winner of the 1992 Eudora Welty Prize

Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston are distinctly varying and individual writers of the American ...

Black Writers, White Publishers

Winner of the 2006 Eudora Welty Prize

Jean Toomer's Cane was advertised as “a book about Negroes by a Negro,” despite his request not to promote the book along such racial lines. Nella Larsen switched the tit ...

Feminist Alternatives

Winner of the 1990 Eudora Welty Prize

The author contends that the novels of the period 1969–1988 served as a dialogue among women authors and their readers as they attempted to deal with dramatic alterations i ...