Latecomer -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I -- Introduction A Ball of Golden Thread -- Thoughts on Fictional Places -- PART II - EXCURSIONS -- Places We Have Come From, Places We Have Been -- The Delta -- One Writer's Sense of Place -- Place in My Fiction -- Imagination in Place -- PART III - EXPLORTIONS 1 PLACE IN MODERN SOUTHERN FICTION -- Faulkner's Wilderness -- Place in Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Stories Portrait of the Artist as a Rebellious Texas Belle -- Place in Robert Penn Warren's Life and Work -- The Outside of the Inside The Vision of Time and Place in Eudora Welty -- Eudora Welty's Sense of Place -- PART IV - EXPLORATIONS 2 PLACE IN MODERN FICTION OUTSIDE THE SOUTH -- St. Paul Boy -- Purgatory in the Midwest The White Martyrdom of Urban Roche -- "A Tyrannous Sense of Place" Notes on Wallace Stegner's Lyrical Realism -- Early Updike Wandering in the Fields of the Lord -- PART V - EXPLORATIONS 3 THE ACHIEVEMENT OF WALTER SULLIVAN -- Places and Spaces in the Fiction of Walter Sullivan -- Walter Sullivan A Profile -- Winter in the Mountains -- About the Contributors -- Index.