Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald

A 2016 Edgar Award finalist, the “intimate, luminous portrait of a friendship” of two American literary icons ( Kirkus , starred review).

In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence between fellow writers and kindred spirits. Though separated by background, geography, genre, and his marriage, the two authors shared their lives in witty, wry, tender, and at times profoundly romantic letters, each drawing on the other for…