Books like Eudora Welty

I heard mediocre things about this when it came out so I didn't bother, but I found it on a sale table so picked it up and found out for myself that it is mediocre.It's useful for facts facts facts, and so it will become yet another one of those bios I flip through the index to find out what I want to find out. For instance in Ms Welty's case I'll look up Ross MacDonald to find out about their "romance" or extended epistolary flirtation or whatever it was, and maybe I'll look up individual books or stories to see what the author has to say about them.A couple things I did learn from this book:That Ms Welty didn't like Carson McCullers (no real reason given besides she had a cigarette cough). That she spent 3 days with Henry Miller at the behest of publishers and that she found him unobservant and humorless and that she was offended that he offered to hook her up with his publisher of "pornography" so she could make a quick buck (he obviously misread the world of a sophisticated Southern lady).That her "romance" around WWII with a man she intended to marry was entirely devoid of any accelerated blood flow, ie it was far from sex-based.