About the book: 1989 / The stories in this book give an idea of ​​the creative evolution and writing style of Eudora Welty, which is characterized by a combination of lyricism and irony, comic and tragic. Eudora Welty (b. 1909) is a remarkable master of the story, second only to Faulkner in this genre, and is rightfully considered one of the leading American prose writers. Already the first collection of her stories, “The Green Curtain” (1941), was highly appreciated by Robert Penn Warren and Catherine Anne Porter. “Even in the shortest of her stories there is so much restrained power that, despite all their brilliance, I know for sure that this is just the beginning,” wrote Porter. Eudora Welty has written several collections of short stories, three novels, including criticism highlights “Lost Battles” (1970) and “The Optimist’s Daughter” (1972), a book of memoirs “The Beginning of a Writer’s Journey” (1983), many essays, critical articles. The Russian reader knows only one book by Eudora Welty - it includes the novel “The Optimist’s Daughter” "and stories ("Progress", 1975). The cover uses a fragment of the painting “Natchez” by the American artist and ornithologist John James Audubon (1785–1851), one of the heroes of the story “Still Moment”, which takes place in the vicinity of this town.