Eudora Welty and Walker Percy

The late Marion Montgomery was professor emeritus of English at the University of Georgia. In 2003, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute honored Montgomery with the Gerhart Niemeyer Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship in Liberal Arts. He lived in Crawford, Georgia.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction      Part I     The Swift Bird of Memory, the Breadboard of Art: Reflections on Eudora Welty and Her Storytelling      PartWalker Percy’s Quest for the Word Within the Word: A Preliminary      Notes      Index

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