de The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, and Losing Hearts. Herskillful re-creation of regional patterns of speech and thought make her well-noted. “Welty’s main subject is the intricacies of human relationships, particularly as revealed through hercharacters’ interactions in intimate social encounters”(Eudora Welty: Biography). Most of hernovels and short stories are tales of eccentric and even hideous characters. She portrays themwith charm and sympathetic humor. Many of the stories that brought her fame first appeared inThe New Yorker Magazine. Another American novelist during the seventies was Michael Shaara. He was ashort-story writer whose writing on military matters is known for its historical accuracy andrealism. Shaara’s fiction examines the behavior of men faced with difficult circumstances. Hefinished writing The Killer Angels in 1974. It’s a novel about the Battle of Gettysburg in theAmerican Civil War. The book re-creates the battle from the points of view of both Northern andSouthern officers. Praised for its attention to detail and its historical accuracy, the book won the1975 Pulitzer Prize(“English Literature”).Nadine Gordimer is a novelist and short-story writer. In her books, Gordimer sympathetically presents the position of non-whites while conveying the conflicting feelings ofliberal whites who live under a system they believe to be wrong(“Gordimer, Nadine”). She wonthe Booker Prize in 1974 for her novel, The Conservationist. Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul is a Trinidadian-British writer and essayist. He is oneof the masters of English narrative. In fiction and essays marked by stylistic virtuosity andpsychological insight, he focuses on his childhood, his travels beyond Trinidad, and the difficultiesfacing the Third World(“Naipaul, V.S.”). Two of his noted works are, India: A WoundedCivilization and A Be...
