New York: Random House, 1978, dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of Welty's rather infrequent non-fiction writings, including several essays on writing fiction, commentaries on writers ranging from Jane Austen to Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf, from E. M. Forster to William Faulkner, and on miscellaneous subjects like childhood reading and Mississippi cookery. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-394-425065.