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Creator
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
Call number
MssCol 18345
Physical description
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Preferred Citation

Eudora Welty Correspondence with William Jovanovich, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Access to materials
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Collection consists of correspondence between Eudora Welty and her publisher, William Jovanovich. Also included is correspondence between Jovanovich and Vanderbilt professor Michael Kreyling.

Biographical/historical information

Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. William Jovanovich was an American publisher and president of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Scope and arrangement

Collection consists of correspondence between Eudora Welty and William Jovanovich. Topics discussed include her work on the books The Shoe Bird (1964), Moon Lake and Other Stories (1980), and Collected Stories (1982); a book party held for Welty at the St. Regis Hotel; and her National Book Award received in 1983. Also included is correspondence between Jovanovich and Vanderbilt professor Michael Kreyling regarding Kreyling's book Author and Agent: Eudora Welty and Diarmuid Russell.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller Inc., 2010

Processing information

Compiled by Kit Messick.

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328