Literary New Orleans(English, Paperback, unknown)

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Literary New Orleans(English, Paperback, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Louisiana State University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807122734 (ISBN 10) and 9780807122730 (ISBN 13).

This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers - George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin - as well as three prolific twentieth-century authors who called the Crescent City ""home"" at various times: William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Walker Percy. In the book's final essay, Lewis P. Simpson reflects on the history of New Orleans as a literary center, giving special emphasis to Percy's The Moviegoer and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces.