"Lillios says that she wanted to capture the relations between 'the daughter of an Alabama slave . . . and a transplanted upper-middle-class Yankee, ' especially during the 1940s, 'when both women were at the height of their literary creativity.' And so she does, thoroughly...
Two celebrated writers challenged by the color line "In this fascinating and insightful book, Anna Lillios deepens our understanding of the complexity of the friendship between two of America's most beloved Southern female writers."--Virginia L. Moylan, author of Zora Neale Hurston's...