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Eudora Welty and Frank Lyell, from Jackson, Mississippi, were graduate students at Columbia University in New York City, studying advertising and English literature, respectively, for Fall and Spring terms 1930 to 1931. They took every advantage of being in New York City, going to theater, concerts, movies, clubs, and night court. Cole draws from his lifelong friendship and conversations with Welty and from Lyell's journal of his year in the city, which he called "God's Garden." Lyell traveled to Europe before teaching and completing a dissertation at Princeton, and Welty returned to Jackson when her father died in September 1931, eventually pursing the writing of fiction for which she is renown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
