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The Norton Book of Friendship

Edited by Ronald A. Sharp (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) and Eudora Welty

Friendship; Correspondence; Prose; Poetry

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

From the publisher’s description:

Famous literary friendships such as those between H.L. Mencken and James Joyce, Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev, and Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore are examined in this magnificent collection of stories, legends, poems, essays, letters, and memoirs that illuminate the breadth and depth of friendship in all its human complexity.

Subjects
Literature / Fiction and Poetry / Friendship / Correspondence / Prose / Poetry /

Sharp, Ronald A. (NHC Fellow, 1986–87), ed. The Norton Book of Friendship. Edited by Ronald A. Sharp and Eudora Welty. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991.