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.
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. ISBN 9780393030655.