One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty

One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty is a 105-page hardcover published by first in 1983.  This copy published in 2002 for Book-of-the-Month Club by arrangement with Harvard University Press.    Book Summary Here, in a "continuous thread of revelation," Eudora Welty sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing.  Homely and commonplace sights, sounds, and objects resonate with the emotions of recollection:  the striking clocks; the Victrola; her orphaned father's coverless little book saved since boyhood; the tall mountains of the West Virginia back country that became a metaphor for her mother's sturdy independence; Eudora's earliest box camera that suspended a moment forever and taught her that every feeling awaits a gesture.  She has recreated this vanished world with the same subtlety and insight that mark her fiction. Even if Eudora Welty were not a major writer, her descripti