Summer 2001

This issue of The Kenyon Review is dedicated to the memory of  Eudora Welty (1909-2001)

“Lately, in my old age, it has seemed to me, when friends meet to hold a public service to pay tribute to one of their number who has died, that without words to that effect ever being said, they are drawing a circle around that friend. Speaking in turn one after the other joining themselves together anew, they keep what they know of him intact. As if by words expressed they might turn friendship into magic, the magic that now, so clearly, it had been.”

—Introduction to The Norton Book of Friendship
Edited by Eudora Welty and Ronald A. Sharp