The Regional Writer An author is a regional writer when his or her body of work reflects a particular area or region. For instance, Eudora Welty is a Southern style writer because her stories are mostly set in the Deep South, and more specifically in Mississippi. They reflect the physical setting, language and culture of that area and time. The physical setting is the most important aspect of determining a regional writer. In Eudora Welty's …showed first 75 words of 948 total…

…showed last 75 words of 948 total…Hodgman, George. "Southern Comfort", Entertainment Weekly; 3 August, 2001: p 19. Johnston, Carol Anne. "Sex and the Southern girl: Eudora Welty's critical legacy." The Mississippi Quarterly, Spring 2003: p269 Jones, Malcolm. "Southern Lady , World-Class Storyteller." Newsweek, 6 August, 2001: p 60. Keillor, Garrison. Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1987. Welty, Eudora. "A Worn Path." Literature; An Introduction To Reading And Writing. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001. p150-155.