Letter to the Editor - TLS April 6 2012 Issue - Eudora Welty by William A. Percy

Sir - Edmund Gordon (After Croquet, March 9) refers to Eudora Welty's friends John Robinson and Kenneth Millar as "the two great loves of her life" and says that "both behaved selfishly towards her, stringing her along for years although they must have known they could never provide what she wanted from them - Millar because he was already married; Robinson because he preferred men." Eudora must be grinning (or grimacing) in her grave at the success of her discretion, but as Kevin Sessums makes clear in Mississippi Sissy, and everyone else in the know in Jackson was aware, Eudora could not imagine sex with a man.

William Armstrong Percy III