American short story Writer and Novelist, She is noted for her historical works about Southern families. Won Pulitzer for The Optimist's Daughter (1972). 1909-2001 Popularity:
“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.”
“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.”
“What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.”
