This volume brings to broader notice a writer who, though long acclaimed by critics, has received far too little attention from the public. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, two PEN American Center awards, an O. Henry Award, a Ritz Hemingway Award, and numerous fellowships, Peter Taylor surely merits such attention for his contribution to American literature.
This book contains twelve essays by scholars and critics, four reminiscences, and a recent interview with Taylor. Some of the pieces presented here grew out of a symposium on Peter Taylor sponsored by Essex Community College in April 1991;...

The Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and the Brainard Cheneys Edited by C. Ralph Stephens In 1953 Flannery O'Connor was so pleased by Brainard Cheney's review of her much misunderstood first novel "Wise Blood" that she wrote the reviewer to thank him. What Cheney, himself a novelist, had said about the book was right on target. Very soon a friendship between this rising star of southern literature and Brainard and Frances Cheney was flourishing. Over the next eleven years there was a spirited exchange of letters and visits. Whenever possible, the Cheneys stopped by Andalusia, the O'Connor...