WELTY, Eudora.
One Writer's Beginnings.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press , 1984.
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One Writer's Beginnings; Signed by Eudora Welty and Finely Bound The Harcourt Bindery
First edition, early printing of this reflective memoir. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Eudora Welty on a page bound in. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
Eudora Welty won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize and was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was also the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. 'One Writer’s Beginnings' (1984) is a reflective memoir that traces the formative influences of her childhood in Jackson, Mississippi, and their role in shaping her development as a writer. Originally delivered as a series of lectures, the work is organized into three thematic sections—“Listening,” “Learning to See,” and “Finding a Voice”—through which Welty examines how attention to language, observation, and personal experience informed her literary craft.
One Writer's Beginnings.
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