On the not-quite-romance of Eudora Welty and Ross MacDonald. By the time they became acquainted, in 1970, both were well established in their fields—Welty in that nebulous genre called Southern literature, and MacDonald in hard-boiled detective fiction. Welty’s stories and novels captured the voice of small towns in Mississippi; MacDonald, the pen name for Ken Millar, set his novels in Southern California, exploring the ways in which the dream of suburbia could turn twisted and nightmarish.
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