"Accompanying Welty's essay are a dozen full-color plates of Hollingsworth paintings she specifically mentions or to which she alludes. An afterword puts the wo

Contributions by Jacob Agner, Susan V. Donaldson, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Stephen M. Fuller, Jean C. Griffith, Ebony Lumumba, Rebecca Mark, Donnie McMahand, Kevin

“I’ve read her Thirteen Stories many times, and I’m always awed by how much comedy, pathos, satire and lyricism she manages to squeeze into her stories.�

Stories as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. These stories are honest, and vastly entertaining.

Collects photographs of Mississippians that Welty took in the 1930s when she worked for the Works Progress Administration.